- 1有翅膀的、有翼的(形容詞);眼線的「飛翹」也用這個字
Winged means 'having wings'. It is an adjective, and it goes in front of a noun almost all the time: a winged insect, a winged horse, winged seeds that spin down from a tree. You would not usually say 'the bird is winged'; for that, English speakers say 'it has wings'. The word is a little literary — you meet it in stories, poems, myths, and in the names of animals and plants — so in everyday talk people just say 'with wings'. It also gets used for things shaped like wings even when they cannot fly: a winged (one with side pieces near your head), winged (drawn out to a point at the corner of the eye — young women in Taiwan will know this one). Two pronunciations exist, and this trips people up. As the adjective meaning 'having wings' it is often two , WING-id, especially in careful or poetic speech. As the past form of the verb wing ('he winged the ball at me', 'she winged it' = did it without preparing), it is one syllable, wingd. Note that 'wing it' meaning 'do something without preparing' is very common and useful: 'I hadn't studied, so I just winged it.'
From the word’s history
From Middle English winged 'having wings', past participle of wingen, from the noun winge.
源自中古英文 winged「有翅膀的」,來自名詞 winge「翅膀」。
組成wing + -ed. The ending -ed added to a noun makes an adjective meaning 'having this thing' — the same pattern as bearded (having a beard) or talented (having talent). Not a past tense here, even though it looks like one.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
wingedadj詞源 1/wɪŋɪd/
- 1
Having wings.
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
- 2
Having wings.
- weak-winged
- 3
Having wings.
- The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.
- 4
Flying or soaring as if on wings.
- 5
Swift.
- Come Tamburlain, now whet thy winged ſword And lift thy loftie arme into the cloudes, That it may reach the King of Perſeas crowne, And ſet it ſafe on my victorious head.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。