喜樂美語

核心畫面

Start with the animal itself: a big grey hunter that works with its pack, waits outside where the light ends, and eats fast when it finally eats. For hundreds of years in Europe that animal stood at the edge of the village in winter, hungry and patient. English kept both halves of that picture — the danger you cannot see coming, and the hunger that a plate in seconds.

先從那隻動物開始：一隻灰色的大型獵食動物，成群行動，待在光照不到的外圍等著，一旦吃到就吃得又急又快。在歐洲，幾百年來…更多收起先從那隻動物開始：一隻灰色的大型獵食動物，成群行動，待在光照不到的外圍等著，一旦吃到就吃得又急又快。在歐洲，幾百年來牠就是冬天守在村子邊上的那個影子——餓，而且很有耐心。英文把這個畫面的兩半都留了下來：一半是你看不出來的危險，一半是那種幾秒鐘就把盤子清空的餓。

Three branches

那隻動物

字面的狼，其他所有用法的形象都從這裡借走。

the animal · noun · B2

Living and hunting in groups, this wild animal looks like a large dog.

狼

在外面等著的危險

村子外面那隻餓著的狼被拿來說兩種處境：牠可能偽裝成無害的樣子混進來，也可能就守在門口，只要你一停下來牠就進來。

a wolf in sheep's clothing · noun · B2

In 'a wolf in sheep's clothing': someone who seems kind but is really dangerous or dishonest.

披著羊皮的狼

像狼一樣吃

從狼身上借走的不是危險而是吃相：大口、不細嚼、幾秒鐘結束。名詞直接當動詞用，畫面立刻就到位。

eat quickly · verb · B2

To eat something very quickly, in large mouthfuls.

狼吞虎嚥

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。

Wolfname詞源 1

  • 1

    The constellation Lupus.

Wolfname詞源 2

  • 1

    A surname transferred from the given name.

  • 2

    A male given name.

wolfnoun/wʊlf/

  • 1

    Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

    • He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves.
  • 2

    Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

  • 3

    A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

  • 4

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA wolf tone or wolf note.

    • The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.
  • 5

    Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

    • They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
    • the bee wolf
  • 6

    One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

  • 7

    A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.

  • 8

    A wolf spider (Lycosidae spp.).

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteAn eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

    • If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side
  • 10

    A willying machine, that uses willow twigs to cleanse wool.

    • The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth

wolfverb/wʊlf/

  • 1

    To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

    • "Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."
    • After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.
  • 2

    slangTo make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

    • [1940s Chicago punk:] ‘I’ve seen a thing or two in my time,’ he still liked to boast, ‘that was how I found out the best place for wolfin’ ain’t the taverns. It ain’t in dance halls ’r on North Clark on Saturday night. It’s in the front row in Sunday school on Sunday mornin’. Oh yeh, I know a thing or two, I been around.’
  • 3

    To hunt for wolves.

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。