喜樂美語

這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 quick, fast · the quick, skin under a nail

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quick

a, interj, r

You can picture something done in the blink of an eye — over almost before it began. That short, snappy span is the heart of this 'quick': moving fast, taking little time, reacting before you can even wait. A quick mind works the same way, just with thoughts instead of feet.

可以想成一件事在一眨眼之間就做完——幾乎還沒開始就結束了。這種又短又利落的時間感，就是這個 quick 的核心：動得快、花的時間少、還沒等就有反應。腦子快也是同一回事，只是換成念頭跑得快，而不是腳。

A second word, same spelling

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quick

n

This is a different, much older 'quick' — it once meant 'alive, living'. You can picture the soft, tender, living flesh under a : the part that is most alive and feels the most. From that raw, living spot grow the few survivors of this old word.

這是另一個、年代古老得多的 quick——它原本的意思是「活的、有生命的」。可以想成指甲底下那塊柔軟、敏感、活生生的嫩肉：最有生命、最有感覺的地方。這個古字僅存的幾個用法，都從這塊「活肉」長出來。

From the word’s history

From Old English 'cwic' meaning 'alive, living' (the same root in 'the quick and the dead'); unrelated in origin to quick = fast, which is a later sense shift of the same Germanic word toward 'lively, rapid'.

源自古英語 cwic，意思是「活的、有生命的」（如 the quick and the dead「活人與死人」）。它和「快速」的 quick 同出一個日耳曼字根，但後者是後來由「有活力」滑向「迅速」，在現代英語裡已是兩個不相干的字。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), s.v. 'quick'

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

比較級 quicker最高級 quickest

意思相反

slowlongdulllengthysluggishdelayedlatetake your timebe slowreluctantslow downwait+1

同家族的字

意思相近

tender skindeeply hurtwoundthe living and the deadeveryone

用法接近

woundhurtthe living

意思相反

comfortcheer up

原始詞典資料25 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。

Quickname

  • 1

    A surname.

quickadj/kwɪk/

  • 1

    Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

    • I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
    • He's a quick runner.
  • 2

    Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

    • That was a quick meal.
    • Veronica Ripley, 32, often speaks to friends about the role that video games played in her trans awakening: “I would try to explain it away, saying that I was playing the girl character because she had a smaller hitbox or quicker kill animations,” she said, referring to in-game advantages.
  • 3

    Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

    • You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
  • 4

    Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

    • My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
  • 5

    Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

    • She has a very quick temper.
    • He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.
  • 6

    archaicAlive, living.

    • I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:
    • Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
  • 7

    archaicAt the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.

    • Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
  • 8

    archaicPregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

    • she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours
    • Invention sleeps within a skull No longer quick with light, The hive that hummed in every cell Is now sealed honey-tight.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    archaicFlowing, not stagnant.

  • 10

    archaicBurning, flammable, fiery.

    • And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs.
  • 11

    obsoleteFresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

    • […] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke,
  • 12

    businessminingproductive; not "dead" or barren

  • 13

    Not cryptic.

  • 14

    Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.

    • Note that quick clay is a subet of brittle material; all quick clay is brittle, but not all brittle clay is quick.) Glaciomarine clay turns into quick clay after extensive pore water leaching by ground- and rainwater.

quickadv/kwɪk/

  • 1

    Quickly, in a quick manner.

    • Get rich quick.
    • Come here, quick!
  • 2

    Answer quickly.

    • Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?

quicknoun/kwɪk/

  • 1

    Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

  • 2

    Plants used in making a quickset hedge

    • The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
  • 3

    The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

    • This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.
    • How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
  • 4

    archaicSynonym of living (“those who are alive”).

    • the quick and the dead
  • 5

    Quitchgrass.

    • Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks
  • 6

    ball-gamescricketgamesA fast bowler.

quickverb/kwɪk/

  • 1

    To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

  • 2

    archaicTo quicken.

    • I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.

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