喜樂美語

Driving can be pictured as drive caught in the middle of happening: something is being pushed along and kept moving, and the word points at whatever is doing the pushing. A small wheel keeps the rest of the clock turning. Wind keeps the rain moving sideways at the window. A wish keeps a person going back to work on the same thing for years. And when your hands are the thing doing the pushing, what you are doing is driving a car, or sending a golf ball down the fairway.

「driving」可以想成：drive 正在發生的樣子——有東西被推著往前，而這個字指的是「在推的那一邊」。時鐘裡的小輪子推著其他零件轉。風推著雨橫著打上窗戶。一個念頭推著人一年一年做同一件事。而當出力的是你的手，那就是你在開一台車，或是把高爾夫球送到球場另一頭。

From the word’s history

The packet's Wiktionary entry traces driving to Middle English dryvyng and Old English drifende, the present participle of the verb that became drive, so the form has always meant something like the one that is pushing.

packet 裡的 Wiktionary 記載，driving 來自中古英語 dryvyng、古英語 drīfende，是後來的 drive 這個動詞的現在分詞（drive 加 -ing）。這跟核心畫面一致：這個字從一開始就是「正在推的那一個」。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract supplied in packet, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:460243249 and :460256035)

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意思相近

propellingmotoringpoweringthe long gamemotive

用法接近

forcefuldriveenergeticridingtee shot

原始詞典資料6 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。

drivingadj詞源 1/ˈdɹaɪvɪŋ/

  • 1

    That drives (a mechanism or process).

    • But the dull, cool, calculating effect given cumulatively through Stalin’s long career, the air of a great glacier moving slowly and by the easiest path to overwhelm some Alpine valley, is only part of the picture. At various times - and especially in his early career - the calm of his general manner was broken, and expression given to the driving emotions that possessed him.
  • 2

    That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent (of wind, rain, etc)

drivingnoun詞源 2/ˈdɹaɪvɪŋ/

  • 1

    The action of the verb to drive in any sense.

    • […] with all its drivings of cattle and all its tithe battles, and all the killings and maimings consequent upon those battles, […]
  • 2

    In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.

    • There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.
    • Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.
  • 3

    golfhobbieslifestyleThe act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.

    • Heigh-ho! Sing heigh-ho! my Golf is most shocking; My driving is topping, my caddie's still mocking.
    • Ever since I started talking to myself with this new attitude toward my driving and my performance on the first tee and the first few holes, I have experienced consistently better performance with my driver.

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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。