Picture a ball coming at you: something reaches you first, and then something comes back out of you. Respond can be thought of as that second movement — the one that only exists because something arrived. It always points back at what caused it, which is why respond so often sits next to to: you respond to a question, to a fire alarm, to a kind of medicine. Nothing gets called responding unless something came in first.

可以想成一顆球朝你飛過來:先是有東西到了你這裡,然後有東西從你這裡回出去。respond 的畫面比較像後面那個動作——它之所以存在,完全是因為前面有東西先來了。它永遠指回那個「來的東西」,所以 respond 後面常常跟著 to:respond to a question(回應問題)、respond to a fire alarm(對火警警報做出反應)、respond to a medicine(對藥物有反應)。沒有先來的那一下,就沒有 respond。

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原始詞典資料8 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。

respondverb/ɹɪˈspɒnd/

  • 1

    To say something in return; to answer; to reply.

    • to respond to a question or an argument
  • 2

    To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.

    • As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
  • 3

    To correspond with; to suit.

    • For his great deeds respond his speeches great.
  • 4

    To satisfy; to answer.

    • The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.
  • 5

    To be liable for payment.

respondnoun/ɹɪˈspɒnd/

  • 1

    A response.

  • 2

    A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.

  • 3

    architectureA half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

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