全神貫注的最佳狀態
從「一塊與周圍不同、自成性質的範圍」借喻到心理上：你進入了一個跟日常分隔開的精神空間。
be in the zone · noun · B1
A state in which you give all your attention to what you are doing, especially in sport, and do it really well.
最佳狀態
核心畫面
You can picture a zone as a marked-off patch of ground that is somehow different from everything touching it — draw a line around an area and say 'inside here it's like this, outside it isn't'. A swimming zone, a war zone, a no-parking zone: the same move every time — a bounded stretch set apart by one defining quality.
可以想成：在一片土地上畫出一圈界線，圈裡頭跟圈外不一樣——「這塊地的性質就是某某」。游泳區、戰區、禁停區都是同一個動…更多收起
可以想成：在一片土地上畫出一圈界線，圈裡頭跟圈外不一樣——「這塊地的性質就是某某」。游泳區、戰區、禁停區都是同一個動作：用一條看不見的線把一段範圍框起來，讓它因為某個特點而跟周圍區隔開。From the picture
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distinct area · noun · B1
A large area that is different in some way from the areas around it.
區域
designate land use · verb · B1
To officially say that an area of land may only be used for a particular purpose.
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原始詞典資料22 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。
zonenoun/zoʊn/
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archaicgeographynatural-sciencesEach of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
- And as two Zones doe cut the Heaven upon the righter side, / And other twaine upon the left likewise the same devide, / The middle in outragious heat exceeding all the rest: / Even so likewise through great foresight to God it seemed best, / The earth encluded in the same should so devided bee […].
- To avoid which, we will take any pains […]; we will dive to the bottom of the sea, to the bowels of the earth, five, six, seven, eight, nine hundred fathom deep, through all five zones, and both extremes of heat and cold […].
- 2
Any given region or area of the world.
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A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
- There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
- The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
- 4
A restricted category or virtual place.
- The discussion was veering off into a danger zone.
- 5
A band or area of growth encircling anything.
- a zone of evergreens on a mountain
- the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent
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A band or stripe extending around a body.
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chemistrycrystallographynatural-sciencesA series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
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informalball-gamesbaseballgamesThe strike zone.
- That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.
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hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleEvery of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
- Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.
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ball-gamesgameshandballA semicircular area in front of each goal.
- The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA mental state of high concentration and performance; see: in the zone.
- I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
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American-footballball-gamesbasketballA defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThat collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
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datedcomputingengineeringmathematicsA logical group of network devices on AppleTalk (an obsolete networking protocol).
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literaryA belt or girdle.
- 17th c, John Dryden, 2005, Pygmalion and the Statue, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (editors), The Poems of John Dryden: Volume Five: 1697-1700, page 263, Her tapered fingers too with rings are graced, / And an embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist.
- […] Or should she, confident, / As sitting queen adored on beauty's throne, / Descend with all her winning charms begirt / To enamour, as the zone of Venus once / Wrought that effect on Jove, so fables tell : / How would one look from his majestic brow, / Seated as on the top of virtue's hill, / Discountenance her despised, and put to rout / All her array; her female pride deject, / Or turn to reverent awe ? […]
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geometrymathematicssciencesThe curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
- 1835, Charles Davies, David Brewster (editors and translators), Adrien-Marie Legendre, Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, [1794, Eléments de géométrie], page 293, To find the surface of a spherical zone. Rule.—Multiply the altitude of the zone by the circumference of a great circle of the sphere, and the product will be the surface (Book VIII. Prop. X. Sch. 1).
- A zone of a sphere is the curved surface of a frustum.[…]Determine, correct to 3 significant figures (a) the volume of the frustum of the sphere, (b) the radius of the sphere and (c) the area of the zone formed.
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geometrymathematicssciencesA frustum of a sphere.
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A circuit; a circumference.
- And we have yet large day; for scarce the sun / Hath finish'd half his journey, and scarce begins / His other half in the great zone of heaven.
zoneverb/zoʊn/
- 1
To divide into or assign to sections or areas.
- Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
- The high-level process is to shut down the server, unzone the server from Generation 2, zone the server to Gen3, and then define and activate the data-migration (DM) volumes between the Generation 2 and Gen3.
- 2
To define the property use classification of (an area).
- This area was zoned for industrial use.
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slangTo enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
- I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.
- Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. # (transitive, archaic, poetic) To girdle or encircle.
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To assign to a restricted category.
- We've zoned each other as friends; we'll never be anything more.
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。