核心畫面

One way to hold it: a day with a lot of air moving — hair in your face, the washing snapping on the line, an umbrella turning inside out. English also uses it for talk that is all movement and no substance: plenty of air going past, nothing much carried in it.

可以想成空氣一直在動的那種天氣:頭髮被吹亂、曬的衣服啪啪作響、傘被吹翻。英文也把它用在講話上——聽起來風風火火、字很更多收起可以想成空氣一直在動的那種天氣:頭髮被吹亂、曬的衣服啪啪作響、傘被吹翻。英文也把它用在講話上——聽起來風風火火、字很大,但裡面沒帶什麼東西過來,就像只有風經過。

From the picture

話多而空

把「只有空氣在動」搬到說話上:句子很長、詞很大,但實際內容很少。

wordy speech · adjective · A2

Using far too many words that sound important but say very little.

空洞的;言之無物

Also in this word

windy weather · adjective · A2

If it is windy, there is a lot of wind, so air moves hard outside.

有風的;風大的

原始詞典資料10 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。

Windyname詞源 1

  • 1

    A locality in the Liverpool Plains council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

Windyname詞源 2

  • 1

    A female given name.

    • “We’ve thought about leaving the state to find a job,” Sara March said, as she coddled her 7-month-old daughter, Windy.
    • Lires, who enjoyed running and other sports, is survived by his wife, Theresa, and another daughter, Windy, 13, coroner’s officials said.

windyadj詞源 1/ˈwɪn.di/

  • 1

    Accompanied by wind.

    • It was a long and windy night.
    • “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
  • 2

    Unsheltered and open to the wind.

    • They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
  • 3

    Empty and lacking substance.

    • They made windy promises they would not keep.
  • 4

    Long-winded; orally verbose.

    • I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew.
  • 5

    informalFlatulent.

    • The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
  • 6

    slangNervous, frightened.

    • The thing is he’s not windy, he’s a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades.

windynoun詞源 1/ˈwɪn.di/

  • 1

    A fart.

windyadj詞源 2/ˈwaɪndi/

  • 1

    Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。