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核心畫面

Picture a surface that has water or liquid on it — a towel soaked through, grass after rain, skin you just splashed. It is the opposite of dry. 'Wet' can be thought of as that state of being covered or soaked in liquid, and every other use either describes where the water comes from, or borrows the image to call a person 'soggy' and weak.

可以想成：一個沾上水或液體的表面——濕透的毛巾、雨後的草地、剛潑了水的皮膚，跟「乾」正好相反。wet 比較像「被液體…更多收起可以想成：一個沾上水或液體的表面——濕透的毛巾、雨後的草地、剛潑了水的皮膚，跟「乾」正好相反。wet 比較像「被液體覆蓋、浸濕」的那種狀態；其他用法不是在說水從哪來，就是把這個畫面借去形容一個人「軟趴趴」、沒骨氣。

原始詞典資料36 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。

WETadj

  • 1

    computingengineeringmathematicsOf code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.

wetadj/wɛt/

  • 1

    Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.

    • Water is wet.
  • 2

    Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.

    • I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
    • The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.
  • 3

    Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.

    • A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
    • The new item is its first "wet," or sauce-topped, burrito.
  • 4

    Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.

    • This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
  • 5

    Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.

  • 6

    Of weather or a time period: rainy.

    • It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
    • 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 32, Summer drouth, or singed aire Never scorch thy tresses faire, Nor wet Octobers torrent flood Thy molten crystall fill with mudde,
  • 7

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationUsing afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.

    • This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.
  • 8

    slangOf a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.

    • That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    vulgarslangSexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.

    • He got me all wet.
    • I'm gonna get you wet. I'm gonna get you very wet. I know how to do this.
  • 10

    slangIneffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.

    • "Wet! What currency that bit of slang has—and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long research I think that I know. A man is wet if he isn't a 'regular guy'; he is wet if he isn't 'smooth'; he is wet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob discover them; and, strangely enough, he is wet by the same token if he is utterly stupid. He is wet if he doesn't show at least a tendency to dissipate, but he isn't wet if he dissipates to excess. A man will be branded as wet for any of these reasons, and once he is so branded, he might as well leave college … "
    • I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general fight of self-recrimination and wetness.
  • 11

    Permitting alcoholic beverages.

    • The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
  • 12

    archaicslangRefreshed with liquor; drunk.

    • c. 1694, Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon” […] When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends, / With Musick gay, and wet with Iovial Friends […]
  • 13

    biologychemistrynatural-sciencesOf a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.

  • 14

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesEmploying, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.

    • the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
  • 15

    slangInvolving assassination or "wet work".

    • a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff
  • 16

    slangcard-gamespokerOf a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).

  • 17

    obsoletedatedOf a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.

    • 1811. John Adams, Letter to the Boston Patriot, §25. Reprinted in 1856. Charles Francis Adams (ed.), The Life of John Adams, Second President of The United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 661. The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker. The dissenting clergymen in England and America were among the most distinguished asserters and propagators of his renown. Indeed, all sects considered him, and I believe justly, a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion.
  • 18

    With a usual complement or consummation; potent.

wetnoun/wɛt/

  • 1

    Liquid or moisture.

    • Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.
  • 2

    Rainy weather.

    • Don't go out in the wet.
  • 3

    Rainy season. (often capitalized)

    • They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words.
    • Once the wet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth[.]
  • 4

    derogatorygovernmentpoliticsA moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

  • 5

    An alcoholic drink.

    • ‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’
  • 6

    One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.

    • The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
  • 7

    hobbieslifestylemotor-racingA tyre for use in wet weather.

    • Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.
  • 8

    derogatoryA weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.

    • Above all, he [Nigel Molesworth] is his own man, resolutely committed to a view of life that divides his fellow pupils into 'sissies', 'wets', 'swots' and 'old lags'.
    • Rimmer had never been terribly good at sports. In fact, he'd been one of the group of 'wets, weirdos and fatties' who stood by the touchline at ball games, worrying about their chapped legs, and fleeing whenever the ball came near them.

wetverb/wɛt/

  • 1

    To cover or impregnate with liquid.

    • There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails are wetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.
    • 'Mr Kelly's Car Wash' was a toy made by Remco where a toy car could be automatically wetted, scrubbed and dried.
  • 2

    To make or become wet.

    • I try to show emotion, but my eyes won't seem to wet
  • 3

    To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.

    • Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
    • She was laughing so hard she wet her pants.
  • 4

    To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.

  • 5

    informalTo celebrate by drinking alcohol.

    • to wet the baby’s head
    • [He] invited some officers and other gentlemen to dine with him at the Dolphin tavern in Tower street, June 17, 1706, in order to wet his commission […]
  • 6

    slangTo kill or seriously injure.

    • I'm coming to get ya, I'm coming to get ya / Spitting out lyrics, homie, I'll wet ya

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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。