喜樂美語

Something that was inside comes out where people can see it. Sometimes that is a group leaving the house for the day and coming back at night. Sometimes it is a performer out in front of an audience. And sometimes it is a fact that was kept in the dark being carried out into the light by somebody else. The word is just out with -ing on it, so the whole picture is one movement: from in here to out there.

「outing」可以想成「本來在裡面的東西，被帶到外面、被看見」。有時候那是一群人今天出門、晚上回來。有時候是表演的人走到台前，站在觀眾面前。有時候是一件本來藏著的事，被別人拿到陽光底下。這個字說穿了就是 out 加 -ing，所以整幅畫面只有一個動作：從裡面到外面。差別只在，走出去的是人，還是一件不該由別人替你講的事。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives outing as out plus -ing, and compares Old English yting, an outing or journey. So the word is built straight from the direction word: the act of going out.

依 Wiktionary 的記載，outing 就是 out 加 -ing，並且對照古英文的 yting（出行）。也就是說，這個字是直接從方向詞蓋起來的：「出去」這個動作本身變成一個名詞。後來的每一種用法，都只是換了走出去的是什麼。

Wiktionary entry 'outing' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:826162262:16937), etymology_text supplied in evidence packet

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同家族的字

複數 outings

意思相反

coming outcover-up

原始詞典資料5 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。

outingnoun/ˈaʊtɪŋ/

  • 1

    A pleasure trip or excursion.

    • This was a fine day's outing for anybody who had been cooped up in the shops for a few months.
  • 2

    A performance in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.

    • The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise.
    • Other erstwhile stalwarts are also wavering. Southampton had two of the best full-backs in the league last season but Ryan Bertrand has been below par this season and Cédric Soares made an uncharacteristic lapse that led to Stoke’s winning goal in Southampton’s last outing.
  • 3

    The act of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual or transgender without that person's consent.

    • Advocates for gay and lesbian issues suggest the increase in discharges reflects the hostility of the military towards homosexual soldiers and a growing number of "forced outings" of gay and lesbian troops.
  • 4

    The act of revealing somebody as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.

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。