Picture a container that someone has already filled and closed: the load is inside, it is heavier than it was empty, and it is ready to be used or moved. That one picture runs through the whole word. A truck has goods inside. A camera has film inside. A person can have money inside, or alcohol inside. A sentence can have an opinion inside that nobody said out loud. A dice can have a hidden weight inside that decides how it falls. So when you meet loaded, one question usually unlocks it: what has been put inside this thing?
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records the word simply as load + -ed — the past participle of the verb load used as an adjective. That is why the adjective still carries an action inside it: someone put a load in.
Wiktionary 記的來源很單純：load（裝載）加上 -ed，也就是動詞 load 的過去分詞拿來當形容詞。所以這個形容詞裡面本來就藏著一個動作——有人把東西裝了進去。這也說明了為什麼各種用法都保留著「被放進了什麼」的感覺。
Wiktionary 'loaded' (packet evidence, kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4), etymology_text: "From load + -ed."
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原始詞典資料12 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。
loadedadj/ˈləʊ.dəd/
- 1
Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
- Let’s leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
- With regard to France and Holland, therefore, I muſt think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are more loaded and more oppreſſed with Taxes and Exciſes than the People of this Kingdom ;
- 2
Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
- No funny business; this heater’s loaded!
- 3
Possessing great wealth.
- He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.
- She told me that her Dad was loaded / I said “In that case, I’ll have rum and coca-cola”
- 4
slangDrunk.
- ‘Well, I’m loaded right now and I can’t remember where it is right now, tiny country . . . in the west?’
- By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded.
- 5
ball-gamesbaseballgamesPertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
- It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
- 6
dicegamesOf a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
- He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
- They played awhile to Corinius’s great content, for at every throw he won and the other’s purse waxed light. But at this eleventh stanza the son of Corund cried out that the dice of Corinius were loaded.
- 7
Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
- That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
- At a press conference held in a Valencia hotel two weeks ago, Jesús “Suso” García Pitarch was asked why Peter Lim had bought the city’s football team in the first place. It was a loaded question, one supporters have pondered often over the last couple of years, and the answer, or the lack of one, felt loaded as well.
- 8
Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
- "Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
- The more loaded phrase is the middle one, "she slit his gullet," since it captures a sense of crudeness and suddenness that the other two do not.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
- 9
Equipped with numerous options.
- She went all out; her new car is loaded.
- 10
foodlifestyleCovered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
- loaded fries
- loaded potato wedges
- 11
Weighted with lead or similar.
- a loaded cane or whip
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。