喜樂美語

You can think of floating as a leaf on a pond. Nothing holds it down and nothing pushes it along: the water carries its weight, so it stays on top and goes wherever the water goes. Every other use keeps one half of that picture — either the being-carried, or the not-being-tied-down.

floating 的核心畫面可以想成一片浮在池面上的葉子。沒有東西把它壓住，也沒有東西推著它走：水替它撐住重量，所以它停在表面上，水往哪流它就往哪去。其他的用法都留著這幅畫面的一半——不是「被托著」，就是「沒有被綁住」。

From the word’s history

By surface analysis, float + -ing.

維基詞典記錄這個字從表面拆開就是 float 加 -ing，所以它的意思就是 float（被托著、沒有沉下去）這個動作的形容詞和名詞形式。

Wiktionary entry for floating, etymology_text: "By surface analysis, float + -ing." (supplied in the evidence packet)

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

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原始詞典資料8 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。

floatingadj/ˈfloʊtɪŋ/

  • 1

    That floats or float.

    • floating buoys
  • 2

    Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.

    • The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.
    • In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.
  • 3

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesthat is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.

floatingnoun/ˈfloʊtɪŋ/

  • 1

    The motion of something that floats.

  • 2

    Material that floats in a liquid.

    • Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.
  • 3

    The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.

  • 4

    biologymedicinenatural-sciencesA veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.

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。