- 1精紡毛料、精梳毛紗（做西裝、制服那種挺而滑、能壓出摺線的羊毛布）。注意唸法是 WUS-tid，聽起來像「烏斯提」，跟 worse 沒有關係；它來自英國諾福克郡一個叫 Worstead 的織布小鎮。編織界說的 worsted weight 則是指中等粗細的毛線。
'Worsted' is a kind of woollen cloth — and also the yarn it is made from. What makes it 'worsted' is not the sheep but the making: the wool fibres are combed until they all lie the same way and the short ones are pulled out, then spun tight. The result is smooth, firm, hard-wearing cloth that holds a sharp crease, quite unlike the soft fluffy wool of a winter sweater. This is the wool of good suits, school uniforms, and business trousers. You will meet the word mostly in shops selling , on clothing labels, in , and in older novels. Ordinary people in Taiwan or Britain do not use it in daily conversation; a tailor does. It works as a noun ("a suit made of worsted") and in front of another noun ("a worsted jacket", "worsted wool"). Knitters use it a little differently: for them 'worsted weight' is a standard middle thickness of yarn, and that meaning has spread beyond actual worsted wool. The pronunciation is the trap and the joy of this word: it sounds like WUS-tid — the first part rhymes with 'puss', not with 'worse'. That is because it has nothing to do with 'worse' at all. It is named after Worstead, a town in Norfolk, England, which was a weaving centre in the Middle Ages. Separately, and , 'worsted' is also the past form of the old verb 'worst', meaning to beat someone in a fight or argument ("he was worsted in the debate") — that one IS related to 'worse', and it is rare and old-fashioned. Same spelling, different word, different sound.
組成From the place name Worstead (Old English *Wurþestede), a town in Norfolk, England that was a medieval weaving centre — the cloth is named after where it was made, the way 'denim' is named after Nîmes. The unrelated verb form 'worsted' is simply 'worst' (to defeat) + -ed.
同家族的字
- worstonly for the OTHER 'worsted' — the past form of the verb 'to worst', to defeat; the cloth is unrelated
原始詞典資料4 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。
worstednoun詞源 1/ˈwʊs.tɪd/
- 1
businessmanufacturingtextilesYarn made from long strands of wool.
- An old ſet-ſtitch’d chair, valanced and fringed around with party-colour’d worſted bobs, ſtood at the bed’s head, oppoſite to the ſide where my father’s head reclined.
- [T]he kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; […]
- 2
The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn.
- [T]he undertaker’s wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark, forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated “the kitchen,” wherein sat a slatternly girl in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair.
- He had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck—Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge—an ornament—a charm—a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it?
worstedadj詞源 2/ˈwəː.stɪd/
- 1
Defeated, overcome.
- The worsted army fled in disarray.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。