Picture a short coat you pull on over what you are already wearing: it stops around the waist or hips, it has sleeves, and it buttons or zips up the front. Its place is always the outside layer, and its job is to sit round the thing inside — you — and keep it safe and warm. Every other kind of jacket is that same outer layer, wrapped round something that is not a person.
From the word’s history
'Jacket' comes into English in the mid-15th century from Old French jaquet, a diminutive of jaque, a kind of short tunic; where jaque itself came from is not settled. The 'paper wrapper of a book' sense is recorded by 1886 — so the covering senses really are the garment sense being lent out to objects, not a separate word.
jacket 在 15 世紀中期從古法文 jaquet 進入英文,是 jaque(一種短上衣)的小稱形式;jaque 再往上的來源並沒有定論。「書的紙封套」這個意思到 1886 年才有紀錄——也就是說,包在物品外面的那幾個用法,確實是「衣服」這個意思後來借出去的,不是另外一個字。
Online Etymology Dictionary — https://www.etymonline.com/word/jacket
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原始詞典資料13 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。
jacketnoun/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
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businessclothingfashionAny of certain types of outerwear.
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businessclothingfashionAny of certain types of outerwear.
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businessclothingfashionAny of certain types of outerwear.
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businessclothingfashionAny of certain types of outerwear.
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businessclothingfashionAny of certain types of outerwear.
- He's hoping to earn his jacket this year.
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businessclothingfashionAny of certain types of outerwear.
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A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, bullet, hot water tank, vinyl record).
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, bullet, hot water tank, vinyl record).
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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cookingfoodlifestyleA protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, bullet, hot water tank, vinyl record).
- Cook the potatoes in their jackets.
- Breakfast was composed of a meal which reminded me of a linseed poultice; for dinner there were potatoes boiled in their jackets with beef saltier than the ocean itself.
- 10
slanggovernmentlaw-enforcementA police record.
- We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. And you know with my jacket I can't go back to jail.
- Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.
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A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
jacketverb/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
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To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
- ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’
- 2
To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
- ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.
- By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.
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。