Picture a hand with a brush working down a horse's coat: slow, repeated strokes that pull out the dirt, what is sticking up, and leave the whole thing smooth. Everything on this page is that stroke, moved onto something else — onto your own face and clothes, onto a person's career, onto a messy list of work. One warning travels with the image: the same patient smoothing can be aimed at a child by an adult who means harm, and English uses this word for that too.

「grooming」可以想成一隻手拿著刷子,順著馬的毛一下一下往下刷:把髒的帶走,把翹起來的壓平,最後整片變得又順又乾淨。這一頁的每個意思,都是這個刷的動作被搬到別的東西上——搬到自己的臉和衣服上、搬到一個人的職涯上、搬到一份亂掉的工作清單上。同一個「慢慢弄順」的動作,也被用在一件很嚴重的事情上:成年人有計畫地慢慢接近孩子,英文同樣用這個字。

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原始詞典資料7 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。

groomingnoun/ˈɡɹuːmɪŋ/

  • 1

    Care for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.

    • I believe in good grooming.
  • 2

    biologynatural-sciencesThe practice of primates picking through the hair of others, looking for insects etc.

  • 3

    The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.

  • 4

    Caring for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.

  • 5

    The act of gaining the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually.

  • 6

    computingengineeringmathematicsIn agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog.

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。