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Picture standing somewhere where something could reach out and hurt you — a cliff edge, a fire, a threat nearby. Danger is that possibility hanging in the air: the harm hasn't happened, but the door to it is open.

可以想成：你站在一個地方，有某種東西可能會伸手傷到你——懸崖邊、火、或近處的威脅。danger 就是那份懸在空中的可能性：傷害還沒發生，但通往它的門是開著的。

From the word’s history

From Old French dangier 'power of a lord, power to harm,' from Latin dominus 'master.' Its first English sense was a lord's power over you; being in someone's danger meant being within reach of a power that could hurt you — which is exactly the modern feel: exposure to harm.

來自古法語 dangier「領主的權力、能傷害你的力量」，源頭是拉丁文 dominus「主人」。它最早在英語裡指「落在某人的掌控之下」——就在他能傷到你的範圍內。這正好接上今天的感覺：暴露在可能受害的處境裡。

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複數 dangers

原始詞典資料11 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。

dangernoun/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/

  • 1

    Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.

    • There's plenty of danger in the desert.
    • Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
  • 2

    An instance or cause of likely serious harm.

    • 1st September 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.
  • 3

    obsoleteMischief.

    • We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
  • 4

    rail-transportrailwaystransportThe stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

    • The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
  • 5

    obsoleteAbility to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.

    • You stand within his danger, do you not?
    • Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
  • 6

    obsoleteLiability.

    • Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
  • 7

    obsoleteDifficulty; sparingness; hesitation.

    • They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge.
    • I made daunger of it a while at first, but afterward beyng persuaded by them..I promised to do as they would haue me.
  • 8

    derogatoryA contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.

    • Pineapple and pizza. ONLY JOKING YOU FUCKING DANGER.
    • Why did the chicken cross the road? "To try and get away from you, you absolute danger. I've heard all about you posh boy Etonians and farmyard animals"

dangerverb/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo claim liability.

  • 2

    obsoleteTo imperil; to endanger.

    • The sides o'th' world may danger. Much is breeding
  • 3

    obsoleteTo run the risk.

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。