Something held up in both hands and set down in front of someone: fruit on a temple table, a coin in the collection bag. From the moment it is set down it is not yours any more, and whether it is taken well is not up to you. Every other use keeps that posture and only changes who is standing on the other side — a friend, an audience, a customer.
From the word’s history
Offering is simply offer plus -ing: the noun of the act of holding something out. The word took over from the native Old English hūsl.
offering 就是 offer 加上 -ing，也就是「拿出去給」這個動作的名詞形。它在英文裡取代了原本古英文的 hūsl 這個字。
Wiktionary, offering (noun), packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1097351670:25668
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原始詞典資料6 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。
offeringnoun/ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/
- 1
gerund of offer
- 2
gerund of offer
- votive offerings
- These are the bookstores' latest offerings.
- 3
gerund of offer
- In many ways an ancient well-established situation is in Place: a dead military hero has reappeared as a ghost bringing trouble and even death to the officials who come to administer the Hsiang-chou prefecture at An-yang; they build a temple in his honour and make him regular offerings of bloody food; he then protects and supports the administrators who are responsible.
- 4
gerund of offer
- 5
gerund of offer
- In recent seasons fetishwear has found its way onto the catwalk, with vinyl, PVC and lycra featuring among the most unlikely designer offerings.
- Ithaca is also a vibrant college town — home to Cornell University and Ithaca College — with more cultural offerings than its size would suggest, thanks in large part to the people those institutions attract.
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。