Picture someone who has done wrong, and then picture what is done back to them because of it — a fine, a detention, time in prison. The word holds two things at once: something unpleasant is put on you, and it is put on you as an answer to what you did. When the second half and only the roughness is left, you get the everyday sense of a thing being .

可以想成:有人做錯了事,接著有一個難受的東西被「放到他身上」——罰款、留校、坐牢。這個畫面裡有兩層:一是承受了不好受的對待,二是這個對待是衝著他做過的事來的。把第二層(對錯)拿掉、只剩下第一層(難受、被磨),就成了口語裡「這台車被操得很慘」那種用法。

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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。

punishmentnoun/ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/

  • 1

    The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent or teacher), especially when disappointed or dissatisfied with the behavior or actions of a child, student, or someone else being looked after.

    • The naughty children were given a punishment by their teachers.
  • 2

    A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

    • a light punishment
    • a harsh punishment
  • 3

    A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.

  • 4

    Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.

    • a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment

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。