核心畫面

You can hold wood as the hard brown stuff a tree is made of — the trunk and branches you can cut, , and burn. Everything else fans out from this: a patch of land thick with the trees that wood comes from, a club from it, and a handful of old sayings that reach out to knock on it.

可以把 wood 想成樹身上那種硬硬的、棕色的料——樹幹和樹枝那種可以鋸、可以刻、可以燒的東西。其他意思都從這裡散開更多收起可以把 wood 想成樹身上那種硬硬的、棕色的料——樹幹和樹枝那種可以鋸、可以刻、可以燒的東西。其他意思都從這裡散開:一片長滿這種樹的林地、一支用它削成的球桿,還有幾句老話會伸手去敲它討個吉利。

Four branches

樹做的料

核心本身:樹幹樹枝那種硬料;連高爾夫的『木桿』也歸這裡,因為它本來就是用這種料削出來的。

wood (material) · noun · A2

The hard material that the trunk and branches of trees are made of.

木頭

一片樹林

從『一棵樹的料』退一步看整片地:很多棵長在一起的樹聚成一小片林子——木頭的來源地。

wood (small forest) · noun · A2

A small forest; an area with many trees growing together.

樹林

敲木頭討吉利

這一家是固定老話,借用『去敲一塊木頭』這個動作來討吉利、保平安,意思已經跟木料本身脫鉤、變成一句口頭禪。

touch wood · noun · A2

Said just after you talk about your good luck, hoping it will continue.

老天保佑

拿樹林打的比方

這兩句借的是『樹林』那個畫面:人困在一片林子裡——還沒走出來,或只顧著盯一棵棵樹而看不見整座林——拿來比喻處境和眼界。

not out of the woods (yet) · noun · A2

Used to say that hard times may not be over yet, even if things look better.

還沒脫困

原始詞典資料28 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。

Woodname/wʊd/

  • 1

    An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.

  • 2

    A surname originating as an occupation for a woodsman.

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woodnoun詞源 1/wʊd/

  • 1

    The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

    • This table is made of wood.
    • There was lots of wood on the beach.
  • 2

    The wood from a particular species of tree.

    • Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.
    • A few woods, such as cedar and redwood, are prized for their rugged naturalness and they age so beautifully that they are generally left unfinished.
  • 3

    A forested or wooded area.

    • A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.
    • He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.
  • 4

    Firewood.

    • We need more wood for the fire.
    • We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
  • 5

    golfhobbieslifestyleA type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicA woodwind instrument.

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    slangAn erection of the penis.

    • That girl at the strip club gave me wood.
  • 8

    slangboard-gameschessgamesChess pieces.

    • […] White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.

woodverb詞源 1/wʊd/

  • 1

    To cover or plant with trees.

    • Their be ii good bellys, a chales, and a few veſtments of litil valure, the ſtuff beſide is not worth xl s. lead ther ys non except in ii gutters the which the p’or hath convey’d in to ye town, but that is ſuar yt is metely wodey’d in hege rowys.
  • 2

    To hide behind trees.

    • Immediatly, the other boate lying ready with their shot to skoure the place for our hand weapons to lande upon, which was presently done, although the land was very high and steepe, the Savages forthwith quitted the shoare, and betooke themselves to flight: wee landed, and having faire and easily followed for a smal time after them, who had wooded themselves we know not where […]
  • 3

    To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

    • to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
    • Many passengers would save a little by helping to “wood the boat,” i. e., by carrying wood down the bank and throwing it on the boat, a special ticket being issued on that condition.
  • 4

    To take or get a supply of wood.

    • In this little Iſle of Mevis, more than twenty Years ago, I have remained a great time together, to Wood and Water and refreſh my Men […]

woodadj詞源 2

  • 1

    archaicMad, insane, crazed.

    • And then he flue on hir as he were wood, / And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good.
    • And like a lion wood amongst them fares, Dealing his dreadfull blowes with large dispence

woodnoun詞源 3

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    offensiveslangA peckerwood.

    • He further stated that "I can't remember ever seeing a wood [white inmate] assault a nigger without being provoked".
    • Other than shout-outs to fellow "woods," I found no references on their record to racism, and after getting to know the members, I think Woodpile's message is the opposite of what the L.A. Times construed it to be — they want to bring hardcore white guys to rap music, rather than alienating anyone of any race.

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