喜樂美語

One way to hold this word: something has spent the night outside and woken up wearing a thin white coat. Frost has settled on it. The shine has gone, the colour has gone pale, and where the thing used to be clear you now see only a shadow through it. That coat is the whole picture. English then lends the picture out. Glass made cloudy on purpose wears it. A cupcake under a layer of sugar wears it. Hair with pale streaks wears it. A very cold drink that clouds its own glass wears it. And when the frost stops sitting on a plant and gets inside it, the same word turns from a description of the surface into a report of the damage.

可以想成一樣東西在外面過了一夜，早上醒來身上多了一層薄薄的白。霜停在表面。亮度不見了，顏色變淡了，原本看得穿的地方現在只剩一個影子。整個字就是這層外衣。後來英文把這個畫面借出去用。故意做得白白霧霧的玻璃穿著它。抹了糖霜的杯子蛋糕穿著它。挑染成淺色的頭髮穿著它。冰到杯壁都起霧的飲料也穿著它。而當霜不只停在植物表面、而是進到裡面去，同一個字就從「描述外觀」變成「報告災情」。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces frosted to frost plus the ending -ed, going back through Middle and Old English frost. The -ed here works the way it does in salted or wooded: it says the thing has this on it. So the oldest reading of the word is simply with frost on it, and every other use borrows that image.

Wiktionary 把 frosted 拆成 frost（霜）加上 -ed，再往上追到古英文的 frost。這裡的 -ed 跟 salted、wooded 裡的一樣，意思是「身上有這個東西」。所以這個字最早就是「上面有霜」。其他每一個用法，都是借這個畫面去講別的東西。

Wiktionary entry 'frosted' (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:811013038): etymology tree frost + -ed, via Middle English and Old English frost.

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同家族的字

比較級 more frosted最高級 most frosted

意思相近

frost-coveredtranslucenticyopaquerimedobscuredfrost-damagedetchedfrostbittenicedblightedglazed+4

用法接近

frostymistysnowycloudyfreezingsandblastedwitheredtoppedspoiledcoatedruineddusted+3

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。

frostedadj

  • 1

    Covered in frost; frosty.

    • Eiswein is made from frosted grapes.
  • 2

    Translucent, appearing to be covered in frost.

    • She installed frosted windows, since there was a clear view of her bathroom from her neighbor's bedroom.
    • At the far end of the wide corridor were the doors of a ward. The panels were frosted save for ovals of clear glass at face level.
  • 3

    Damaged by frost.

    • Frosted fruit will be unsalable.
  • 4

    slangExtremely intoxicated.

    • I was so frosted after drinking that 12-pack.

frostednoun

  • 1

    A kind of milkshake made with ice cream.

    • Except for those times when I am drugging myself with movies, vanilla frosteds, the latest novel, or cremes de nepenthe, it is difficult for me to avoid the bothersome thought […]
    • They had continued to laugh at the milk bar, tasting in the chocolate frosteds the unlikely flavor of Mr. Mather's turpitude.

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。