喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of whistle as one clear picture: air forced through a small narrow opening makes a high, thin, piercing sound. your lips and blow — that's the original whistle. Everything else is the same event with a different opening: a small instrument, a bird's throat, a kettle's spout, a train's pipe, or even the slit cut by a fast object slicing through the air. From the action grows the tool that makes the sound, and from both grows the sound itself.

可以想成 whistle 是一個很清楚的畫面：空氣被擠過一個又小又窄的口，發出又高又細、又尖又亮的聲音。把嘴唇撮起來…更多收起可以想成 whistle 是一個很清楚的畫面：空氣被擠過一個又小又窄的口，發出又高又細、又尖又亮的聲音。把嘴唇撮起來一吹——那就是最原始的口哨。其餘全是同一件事換個出口：一個小工具、一隻鳥的喉嚨、水壺的壺嘴、火車的管口，甚至是飛快的東西劃開空氣時擠出的那道縫。從這個「吹出高音」的動作，長出那個會發聲的工具，再從兩者長出那個聲音本身。

原始詞典資料11 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。

whistlenoun詞源 1/ˈwɪs(ə)l/

  • 1

    A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.

    • A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
    • One thing I took great care to observe was obedience to the "whistle" boards which crop up with great frequency, for failure to sound the whistle, if observed by the gendarmerie, can bring about serious consequences.
  • 2

    An act of whistling.

  • 3

    A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.

    • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
  • 4

    Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.

    • the whistle of the wind in the trees
  • 5

    slangA suit (from whistle and flute).

    • We soldiers changed into our No.1 dress uniforms, Sid into his best whistle and we set off for the church.
  • 6

    The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.

    • Let's […] drink the other cup to wet our whistles.

whistleverb詞源 2/ˈwɪs(ə)l/

  • 1

    To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.

    • Never whistle at a funeral.
    • He was whistling a happy tune.
  • 2

    To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.

    • The steam train whistled as it passed by.
    • It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.
  • 3

    To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.

    • A bullet whistled past.
  • 4

    To send, signal, or call by a whistle.

  • 5

    slangTo request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.

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。