Picture two long needles pulling one thread into loop after loop, so that a flat piece of cloth slowly grows out of a single line of wool. Look at the hands and you are thinking of the activity; look at what hangs from the needles and you are thinking of the piece; look up at a web of crossing lines and you get the railway joke.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives knitting as Middle English knyttynge, equivalent to knit + -ing. The -ing ending is what lets one word name both the doing and the thing that comes out of the doing.
本批資料的 Wiktionary 條目把 knitting 記為中古英語 knyttynge，也就是 knit 加上 -ing。-ing 這個字尾正好是關鍵：它讓同一個字既能指「做這件事」，也能指「做出來的那個東西」。
Wiktionary entry 'knitting' (noun), etymology_text supplied in this packet: 'From Middle English knyttynge; equivalent to knit + -ing.' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:829858277)
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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。
knittingnoun/ˈnɪtɪŋ/
- 1
The action of the verb to knit; the process of producing knitted material.
- I find knitting very relaxing.
- 2
Material that has been, or is being knitted.
- She put down her knitting and went to answer the phone.
- At Kiwi, 40 miles from Nelson [New Zealand], eight women installed themselves in the goods shed, taking with them their knitting, and a supply of food and magazines. The demolition crew was unable to pull the building down without injuring them.
- 3
informalrail-transportrailwaystransportoverhead electrification wires, OHLE
- Fair point. Instead of tearing down the knitting and using diesel, tear down the knitting and use turbines.
- It also helps, if: [...] the knitting is aligned with the track below, or rather vice versa, something else that went after 1996.
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。