長錯地方的植物
這一支就是核心畫面本身:沒人種、自己長、佔走空間的植物,以及把它拔掉的動作。
weed (unwanted plant) · noun · C2
A plant that grows by itself in a garden or field where you do not want it, and that takes space and water from crops or flowers.
雜草
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 weed (unwanted plant) · weed
A plant nobody planted, growing fast and unwanted in ground you are trying to keep for something else.
Noun from Old English wēod "weed" (Proto-West Germanic *weud); the verb from Old English wēodian "to weed, uproot" — the same word, one as the plant, one as the act of pulling it.
weed(雜草)來自古英語 wēod,再往上到原始西日耳曼語 *weud,一路下來就是「雜草」的意思,沒有轉過彎;動詞 weed(除草)來自古英語 wēodian「拔草、除草」,是同一個字長出來的動作。所以名詞和動詞是同一株植物的兩面:一個是它長在那裡,一個是你把它拔掉。
Wiktionary, entries "weed" (noun, from Old English wēod) and "weed" (verb, from Old English wēodian)
Three branches
長錯地方的植物
這一支就是核心畫面本身:沒人種、自己長、佔走空間的植物,以及把它拔掉的動作。
weed (unwanted plant) · noun · C2
A plant that grows by itself in a garden or field where you do not want it, and that takes space and water from crops or flowers.
雜草
雜草的兩個特徵:又多又賤
這裡講的已經不是植物本身,而是把雜草給人的印象搬過來形容別的東西。
like weeds (in large numbers) · noun · C2
Used in the comparison like weeds, to say that things appear in very large numbers, the way wild plants spread. Separately, to be 'in the weeds' means to be swamped — so busy you cannot keep up: 'sorry for the slow reply, I've been in the weeds all week.' It started in restaurant kitchens and is now ordinary workplace English.
大量湧現
抽來吸的植物(非正式)
還是「一種草」,但這裡是用雜草那種不正式、不客氣的口氣去指人們拿來抽的植物。
weed (tobacco, old slang) · noun · C2
An old informal name for cigarettes or tobacco.
菸草(舊稱)
A second word, same spelling
Clothing — originally any garment at all; today it survives only as the black mourning dress a widow wore.
From Middle English wede, Old English wǣd "dress, attire, garment", from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz (cf. Dutch gewaad, German Wat) — unrelated to weed "wild plant" (Old English wēod).
這個 weed 來自中古英語 wede、古英語 wǣd「衣著、服裝、衣物」,再往上到原始日耳曼語 *wēdiz(同源的還有荷蘭語 gewaad、德語 Wat,都是「衣物」)。它跟「雜草」那個 weed(古英語 wēod)沒有任何親屬關係,兩者只是各自演變後拼法碰在一起。原本能指任何衣服的字,如今縮到只在 widow's weeds 這個說法裡留下最後一口氣。
Wiktionary, entry "weed" (noun, from Old English wǣd "dress, attire, clothing")
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Weedname
A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
weednoun詞源 1/wiːd/
Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
archaicobsoleteUnderbrush; low shrubs.
informalA drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.
A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.
obsoleteA drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.
A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
informalA puny person; one who has little physical strength.
Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
weedverb詞源 2/wiːd/
To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
To pilfer the best items from a collection.
To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
weednoun詞源 3/wiːd/
archaicA garment or piece of clothing.
archaicClothing collectively; clothes, dress.
archaicAn article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
archaicA hatband.
archaicEspecially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.
weednoun詞源 4/wiːd/
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
Lymphangitis in a horse.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。