核心畫面
Think of what long use leaves behind. Worn is the finished form of wear: the shirt has been on someone's body for years, the step has been walked on ten thousand times — and you can see it. What was thick is thin, what was sharp is smooth, what was fresh looks tired.
可以想成「用久了留下的痕跡」。worn 是 wear 的完成形式：衣服穿在身上很多年，樓梯被踩過上萬次，那段時間會留…更多收起
可以想成「用久了留下的痕跡」。worn 是 wear 的完成形式：衣服穿在身上很多年，樓梯被踩過上萬次，那段時間會留下看得見的結果——原本厚的變薄，原本尖的磨圓，原本新的看起來累了。所以同一個字可以講「（被）穿著的」，也可以講「磨損的」，甚至可以講一張被生活磨過的臉。原始詞典資料3 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。
wornadj/wɔːn/
- 1
Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
- Upon this, an unhappy-looking woman, in a sort of mourning, neat, but sadly worn, hid her face behind a meagre bundle, and was heard to sob.
- In Pisa, where [Galileo] was born, I climbed the worn steps of the tower that has been leaning southward almost from the day it was built in the 13th century.
- 2
Worn out; exhausted.
- Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。