喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈlaɪtɪŋ/照明；燈光

    the lights that a room, building, or street has, or the kind of light they make — how bright, soft, or warm a place looks.

    示範例句 · Example

    Better street lighting makes the walk home feel much safer.

    逐字更好的街道照明讓走路回家的感覺安全得多。

    lighting 不是指「一盞燈」，而是「一個地方被照亮的方式」——可以想成 light（光／燈）加上 -ing，變成「整套燈」加上「照出來的效果」。所以它同時涵蓋兩件事：裝在那裡的燈（street lighting 路燈照明、fluorescent lighting 日光燈照明），以及那些燈造成的感覺（soft lighting 柔和的燈光、good lighting 光線很夠）。它是不可數名詞，不說 a lighting 或 lightings。

    常見搭配

    • street lighting

      路燈照明

      the lights along a road or street

      The new street lighting comes on as soon as the sky gets dark.

    • good / poor lighting

      光線夠／光線不足

      light that is bright enough, or not bright enough, for what you are doing

      Don't read in poor lighting — it will tire your eyes.

    • soft / dim / subdued lighting

      柔和／昏黃的燈光

      lighting that is not very bright

      The restaurant has soft lighting and quiet music.

    • fluorescent / electric lighting

      日光燈／電燈照明

      lighting made by a particular kind of lamp or power

      Fluorescent lighting costs less to run than old light bulbs.

    • natural / artificial lighting

      自然採光／人工照明

      light from the sun, or light made by lamps

      The studio has plenty of natural lighting from the tall windows.

    • a lighting system

      照明系統

      all the lights in a place, working together

      The hall's lighting system can be turned on from a phone.

    意思相近

    lightsilluminationlight

    意思相反

    darkness

core核心畫面

You can picture lighting as everything that gives a place its light, taken together — the lamps in a room, the strips over a shop counter, the tall lamps down a street. It names both the equipment and the effect: whether the place ends up bright and hard, or soft and warm.

可以想成：把一個空間裡所有發光的東西當成一整件事來看——房間裡的燈、店裡櫃檯上方那排燈管、街上一根根路燈。它一方面指這些燈具本身，一方面也指它們合起來造出的感覺：這個地方看起來是亮得刺眼、還是柔和溫暖。所以 the lighting in here is too harsh 抱怨的不是某一盞燈，而是整體的光。

同家族的字

意思相近

lightsilluminationlight

意思相反

darkness

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。

lightingnoun/ˈlaɪtɪŋ/

  • 1

    The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.

    • The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.
    • The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
  • 2

    The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.

    • We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
  • 3

    datedThe process of annealing metals.

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