核心畫面

Picture words that have been put down on a surface and left there — the line of words on a page, on a sign, on a box, on a T-shirt. From that picture the word spreads three ways: back to the act and the skill of putting words down, forward to the body of work someone has produced, and sideways to moments when those marks count as official proof or as a sign of what is coming.

可以想成「被寫下來、留在某個表面上的字」:紙上、招牌上、紙箱上、T 恤上的那一行字。從這個畫面往三個方向走:往回是寫更多收起可以想成「被寫下來、留在某個表面上的字」:紙上、招牌上、紙箱上、T 恤上的那一行字。從這個畫面往三個方向走:往回是寫下來的那個動作和那份能力,往前是一個人寫出來的成品,往旁邊則是那些字被當成正式憑據、或被讀成某種徵兆的時候。

原始詞典資料7 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。

writingnoun詞源 1/ˈɹaɪtɪŋ/

  • 1

    Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.

    • Because writing of any kind is no more and no less than a graphic representation of speech[…], to study its nature and history we must often have recourse to the speech, that is, to the language, that the writing writes.
    • Early writing appeared in both societies around 3000 B.C.E., mainly for administrative purposes in Egypt and for accounting and trading in Sumer.
  • 2

    Something written, such as a document, article or book.

  • 3

    The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.

  • 4

    A work of an author.

    • Congrats, you did an interesting piece of writing.
  • 5

    The style of writing of a person.

    • I can't read your writing.
  • 6

    Intended for or used in writing.

    • a writing table

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。