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    A woodshed is a small simple building, often with open sides, where firewood is kept dry until you burn it. It sits next to the house on farms and in the countryside, and it is usually rough — not a room you would . In older stories the woodshed is also where a father took a child for a , out of sight of everyone, so 'to take someone out to the woodshed' still means to punish or someone hard in private, and among American politicians and journalists it means the same thing about a person who has their group. There is a second, warmer use among jazz musicians in America: 'to woodshed' (as a verb) means to go away alone and practise your instrument hard for hours, because that is exactly where you would go so nobody had to hear it. So the word can mean a shed, a private , or serious lonely practice — the shed is the picture behind all three.

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組成wood + shed. 'Shed' here is a small rough building for storing things — the same shed as a garden shed, not the verb 'to shed tears'.

同家族的字

  • shedthe same noun — a small storage building
  • woodpileshares 'wood'; what goes inside the woodshed

原始詞典資料5 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。

woodshednoun/ˈwʊdˌʃɛd/

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    An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.

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    informalA place where punishments or reprimands are administered.

    • The State Department is incensed, and if this conference fails it will be the woodshed for three Central American presidents.
    • Were you ever taken to the woodshed? Did anyone say, “Stop disagreeing with the president”?

woodshedverb/ˈwʊdˌʃɛd/

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    slangentertainmentlifestylemusicTo practice or rehearse using a musical instrument.

    • Recently, I have taken up the double bass again, but because time and neglect erode ability, calluses turn soft, and muscle memory fades, I need to woodshed (practice) to get back into shape and build up my chops.
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    slangbroadcastingmediaTo practice or rehearse a script.

    • In previous chapters, I've covered many ways to woodshed a script and dozens of techniques for bringing the words to life. Now, I'm going to suggest something completely different: Try performing your script completely cold the first time through.
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    To self-isolate in order to work on one's artistic development or to produce work without interruptions.

    • His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.

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。