Think of water running down a slope. It never stops and starts, it has no corners, and it moves as one body rather than in separate pieces. Every use of flowing borrows something from that picture. Long loose hair and a wide robe fall the way that water falls. A melody or a curve or a line of handwriting travels the way that water travels, with nothing sharp in the middle. So when you meet the word, the useful question is what would the water be here — the falling, or the going on without a break.
From the word’s history
From Middle English flowyng; the word is flow plus -ing, so the adjective is the action of flowing held still as a quality.
這個字來自中古英語 flowyng，結構是 flow 加上 -ing。所以這個形容詞其實就是把「流」這個動作定住，當成一種樣子來用。這也說明了為什麼不管形容頭髮、水還是旋律，底下都是同一個水的畫面。
Wiktionary, English entry 'flowing' (etymology_text: 'From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing.'), packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:964168880:7785
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原始詞典資料4 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。
flowingnoun/ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/
- 1
The action of the verb to flow
- the flowing of the river
flowingadj/ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/
- 1
Tending to flow.
- 2
Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- a flowing dress
- flowing prose
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。