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A welt is a raised, swollen line or lump on someone's skin. It comes up after the skin has been hit hard — with a belt, a stick, a whip, a cane — or after something like a bad insect bite or an allergy. The skin is not usually cut open; it just swells into a ridge, often red, and it hurts.
A welt is a raised, swollen line or lumpwelt 是皮膚上凸起、腫起來的一條線或一塊，on someone's skin在一個人的皮膚上。It comes up after the skin has been hit hard它是皮膚被用力打之後浮出來的——with a belt, a stick, a whip, a cane用皮帶、棍子、鞭子、藤條打——or after something like a bad insect bite or an allergy或是被嚴重蟲咬或過敏之後也會出現。The skin is not usually cut open皮膚通常不會被打破；it just swells into a ridge, often red只是腫成一條隆起，通常是紅色的，and it hurts而且會痛。
The picture the word gives is the mark you can still see hours later, so people often use it as proof that someone was beaten: "He had welts on his back." It is a fairly plain, everyday word in English, not medical and not literary, though doctors sometimes use it for the swollen lines an allergy makes.
The picture the word gives is the mark you can still see hours later這個字給人的畫面是好幾個小時後還看得到的痕跡，so people often use it as proof that someone was beaten所以常被用來當作某人被打過的證據："He had welts on his back."例如 "He had welts on his back."（他背上有一條條的傷痕）。It is a fairly plain, everyday word in English這是英文裡相當平常、日常的字，not medical and not literary不是醫學用語，也不是文學用語，though doctors sometimes use it for the swollen lines an allergy makes不過醫生有時候也會用它形容過敏引起的浮腫紅線。
Note two other uses that share the spelling. In shoemaking, a welt is the strip of leather sewn around the bottom edge of a shoe joining the upper part to the sole — " welted" shoes are made this way, and this use has nothing to do with pain.
Note two other uses that share the spelling要注意還有兩種拼法一樣但意思不同的用法。In shoemaking在做鞋這行裡，a welt is the strip of leather sewn around the bottom edge of a shoewelt 指的是縫在鞋子下緣的一條皮條，joining the upper part to the sole把鞋面和鞋底接在一起——"Goodyear welted" shoes are made this way"Goodyear welted" 鞋就是這樣做的——and this use has nothing to do with pain這個用法跟疼痛完全無關。
There is also a verb: to welt someone is to hit them hard enough to leave such a mark. In Britain and Ireland you may hear "he welted it" just meaning he hit something very hard.
There is also a verb還有一個動詞用法：to welt someone is to hit them hard enough to leave such a mark.to welt someone 意思是打某人打到留下這種痕跡。In Britain and Ireland you may hear "he welted it"在英國和愛爾蘭你可能會聽到 "he welted it"，just meaning he hit something very hard意思就只是他用力打了某個東西。
Most students will only ever meet the skin sense.
Most students will only ever meet the skin sense大部分學生大概只會遇到皮膚傷痕這個意思。
組成Not clearly splittable in modern English. The skin sense goes back to Middle English 'welte'; a related old verb 'welten' (from Old English 'weltan', to roll or turn over) belongs to a Germanic root meaning 'to turn, roll'. The German word 'Welt' meaning 'world' looks identical but is a different, unrelated word.
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
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。
Weltname
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A surname from German.
weltverb詞源 1/wɛlt/
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obsoleteTo roll; revolve.
weltnoun詞源 2/wɛlt/
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A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
- When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her.
- […] I am sure of one thing,—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They criss-cross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable.
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A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
- … round about a border of Purple Veluet, with Floure de luces of Gold, embrodred to the full, with a welt and bordure of Ermines foure fingers broad. / Vpon the last named cloath or Couerlet of St / …
- Therefore this may be taken for an Observation, that an edg, or hem, or welt, only runs on the sides of the Ordinary; but the Border invirons, or goeth clear round the same, […]
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A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
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A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
- [The] Mantle of this Order was of Skie-coloured Damask, having broad welt of Gold embroidered on the Collar, and [...]
- […] surmounted of another Azure: but in my Judgment, it rather represents a Hem, or Welt of a Belt, or an Edg of Silver, than two Belts one upon another; which the Bend properly signifie […]
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A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
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A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
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A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
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obsoleteA shoe made with a welt (strip of leather set into the seam).
- Previous to the fifties, most of the shoes made were welts, or spring heels, and later most of the work changed to turns or "runrounds" as they were called.
- Nathan D. Chase, a well-to-do boss who accumulated enough wealth to retire in 1850 at middle age, observed that the prices for making shoes remained low from 1837 to 1842: 4 cents for red-bottomed cacks, 8 cents for women's turned slippers, 10 cents for thick-heeled runrounds, 12 cents for set heels, 20 cents for welts.
weltverb詞源 2/wɛlt/
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To cause to have welts; to beat.
- Well, gentlemen, I was standing with her just inside the window, in all innocence, as God is my judge, when he rushed like a madman into the room, called her the vilest name that a man could use to a woman, and welted her across the face with the stick he had in his hand.
- "Cover your scut, or I'll welt the skin off it."
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To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
weltverb詞源 3/wɛlt/
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archaicdialectalTo decay.
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archaicdialectalTo become stringy.
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。