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You can picture wide as a big distance from one side across to the other — a road, a river, a doorway with lots of room between its two edges. Everything else stretches out from that one feeling of 'a lot of space between the sides'.

可以把 wide 想成「從一邊到另一邊的距離很大」：一條馬路、一條河、一道門，左右兩邊之間空間很多、撐得很開。後面所…更多收起可以把 wide 想成「從一邊到另一邊的距離很大」：一條馬路、一條河、一道門，左右兩邊之間空間很多、撐得很開。後面所有用法，幾乎都從這個「兩側之間很開」的感覺長出來。

原始詞典資料16 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。

wideadj/waɪd/

  • 1

    Having a large physical extent from side to side.

    • We walked down a wide corridor.
    • Over a wider region either side of the path of totality, a partial eclipse is seen.
  • 2

    Large in scope.

    • The inquiry had a wide remit.
    • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
  • 3

    derogatoryslangOverweight, obese.

  • 4

    hobbieslifestylesportsOperating at the side of the playing area.

    • That team needs a decent wide player.
  • 5

    On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

    • Two balls before lunch, he bowled a wide.
    • Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
  • 6

    datedhuman-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsMade, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.

  • 7

    archaicVast, great in extent, extensive.

    • The wide, lifeless expanse.
  • 8

    obsoleteLocated some distance away; distant, far.

    • Mr Hunt's house, you know, lies wide from Harlowe-place.
    • the contrary [being] so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteFar from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.

    • And I trust anon by the help of an infallible guide, to perfect such Prutenic tables, as shall mend the astronomy of our wide expositors.
    • But I tell you, it is farre wyde, that the people haue ſuche iudgmentes, the Byſhoppes they coulde laughe at it.
  • 10

    computingengineeringmathematicsOf or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

    • a wide character; a wide stream
  • 11

    slangSharp-witted.

    • But the first visitor to penetrate from the outside world proved to be Sergeant Williams; large and pink and scrubbed-looking; and for a little while Grant forgot about battles long ago and considered wide boys alive today.

wideadv/waɪd/

  • 1

    Extensively.

    • He travelled far and wide.
  • 2

    Completely.

    • He was wide awake.
  • 3

    Away from or to one side of a given goal.

    • The arrow fell wide of the mark.
    • A few shots were fired but they all went wide.
  • 4

    So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

    • And with his knee the dore he opens wide

widenoun/waɪd/

  • 1

    ball-gamescricketgamesA ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

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。