喜樂美語

核心畫面

A picture pointing toward where the sun goes down — the west. From that direction on the map grow two things: the part of a land that lies to the west, and the whole cultural world (Europe and the Americas) that we call 'the West', including the cowboy stories set in the old American West.

可以想成手指著太陽落下的那一邊——西方。核心畫面比較像地圖上「西邊」這個方向，從這個方向長出幾層意思：一塊土地靠西的…更多收起可以想成手指著太陽落下的那一邊——西方。核心畫面比較像地圖上「西邊」這個方向，從這個方向長出幾層意思：一塊土地靠西的那一部分、整個被稱為「西方」的文化世界（歐洲與美洲），以及以美國舊西部為背景的牛仔故事。

原始詞典資料13 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。

Westernadj/ˈwɛs.tən/

  • 1

    Of, situated in, or related to the West (in any sense thereof).

    • As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine.
    • He would be as happy with her as he would be with Jennie—almost—and he would have the satisfaction of knowing that this Western social and financial world held no more significant figure than himself.
  • 2

    historicalOf, situated in, or related to the West (in any sense thereof).

  • 3

    Of, situated in, or related to the West (in any sense thereof).

    • He was not the first Northeastern banker to be surprised by what he saw when he stepped off the train into this Western city.
  • 4

    Of, situated in, or related to the West (in any sense thereof).

Westernnoun/ˈwɛs.tən/

  • 1

    datedAn inhabitant of a western region or country.

    • If, again, after studying the life and words of Christ, and comparing them with the Christianity which they see practised in the West, or in the Westerns who reside among them, they are not drawn to Western Christianity […]
  • 2

    A certain genre of fiction (in literature, film, or gaming) dealing with the American Old West; a work in this genre.

    • If I'm going to watch a Western, it needs to be a good one. I had my fill of the bad ones long ago.

Westernname/ˈwɛs.tən/

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.

  • 3

    A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.

westernadj/ˈwɛstɚn/

  • 1

    Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.

    • the western approaches
    • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
  • 2

    Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.

  • 3

    Occidental.

    • Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western) understanding of the front.

westernnoun/ˈwɛstɚn/

  • 1

    broadcastingfilmmediaA film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.

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。