Picture two people across a table, passing things back and forth: goods, money, promises. The verb deal is that passing out; the -ing turns it into the activity itself. So one way to hold the word is as the back-and-forth between people, seen from two distances. Stand close and you watch how it is done — openly, or not. Stand back and you see all the times it has happened, piling up into a record.
From the word’s history
Recorded as Middle English delynge, from Old English dǣling: deal plus -ing, the act of dealing out.
來源記載這個字從中古英文 delynge、古英文 dǣling 來，等於 deal 加 -ing，也就是「分出去、遞出去」這個動作本身。這條線索正好對上上面的畫面。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (etymology_text on dealing, noun and verb): From Middle English delynge, from Old English dǣling; equivalent to deal + -ing.
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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。
dealingnoun/ˈdiːlɪŋ/
- 1
A business transaction.
- 2
One's manner of acting toward others; behaviour; interactions or relations with others.
- Shylock: O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others![…]
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。