喜樂美語
  1. 1vA2/ˈbɪtən/咬（bite 的過去分詞）

    The past participle of 'bite'. You use 'bitten' after have, has or had, and after a form of be in passive sentences: a mosquito has bitten me; I was bitten by a mosquito.

    示範例句 · Example

    Have you ever been bitten by a mosquito at night?

    逐字你曾經在晚上被蚊子咬過嗎？

    Bite has three forms: bite, bit, bitten. 'Bit' is the plain past and can stand on its own — a dog bit him yesterday. 'Bitten' always needs a helper word in front of it. With have, has or had, it says the biting has happened and still counts now: I have been bitten twice this week. With a form of be, the sentence turns around, so the one who got hurt comes first: he was bitten on the ankle. The word covers teeth on skin, teeth on food, and insects too, because mosquitoes and ants bite in English. Some speakers do say 'has bit', and the source marks that as informal or old; in writing, 'has bitten' is the safe choice.

    bitten 是動詞 bite（咬）的過去分詞。bite 的三態是 bite、bit、bitten。bit 是單純的過去式，可以自己站著。bitten 前面一定要有幫手。跟 have、has、had 一起用，表示「已經咬過」，而且現在還算數。跟 be 動詞一起用，句子就翻過來，被咬的人放前面。英文 bite 的範圍比中文的「咬」大一點。蚊子叮、螞蟻咬，英文都用 bite。所以「我被蚊子叮了」是 I was bitten by a mosquito.。有些人會說 has bit，來源資料把那種說法標成非正式或舊用法。寫作業、寫信時用 has bitten 最保險。

    常見搭配

    • be bitten by a dog

      被狗咬

      to be hurt by a dog's teeth

      She was bitten by a dog when she was six.

    • be bitten by a mosquito

      被蚊子叮

      to get a mosquito bite

      I was bitten three times last night.

    • have bitten into something

      已經咬進某樣食物

      to have put your teeth into food

      He had bitten into the apple already.

    • get bitten

      被咬到

      to end up being bitten

      Wear long sleeves so you don't get bitten.

    用法接近

    bitebitbiting

core核心畫面

You can think of 'bitten' as the moment after the teeth have closed. The biting itself is finished; what is left is the fact that it happened and the mark it made. That is why the word cannot stand alone: it leans on have or be to say the action is done — she has bitten it, he was bitten. And when the mark is what you are looking at, the same word can go straight in front of a noun: a bitten apple, a bitten leg.

可以想成 bitten 是牙齒合上之後的那一刻。咬的動作已經結束，留下來的是「這件事發生過」，還有那個痕跡。所以它不能自己站著，要靠 have 或 be 才撐得起句子：she has bitten it、he was bitten。而當你眼前看到的正是那個痕跡時，同一個字就可以直接擺到名詞前面：a bitten apple、a bitten leg。這兩種用法其實看的是同一個畫面，只是一個在講「發生了」，一個在講「看起來怎樣」。

From the word’s history

The Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet analyses the form simply: bit + -en. That -en is the ending on many English past participles (eat/eaten, write/written), which is exactly why 'bitten' needs a helper verb in front of it.

資料把這個字的組成寫得很直接：bit 加上 -en。-en 正是英文許多過去分詞的尾巴，像 eat→eaten、write→written。這也說明了為什麼 bitten 前面一定要有 have 或 be。

Wiktionary entries for 'bitten' supplied in this evidence packet (etymology_text: 'Morphologically bit + -en'; source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:173605276)

同家族的字

過去式 bit過去分詞 bitten-ing biting三單 bites

用法接近

bitebitbiting

原始詞典資料3 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。

bittenadj/ˈbɪt.ən/

  • 1

    That has received a bite.

    • the postman's bitten leg
  • 2

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesAbruptly cut off, as roots or leaves may be.

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。