Picture running your hand along an edge and finding no corner to catch on — the line just curves away and comes back. That is the whole word: something whose sharpness has been taken off, or that never had any. The -ed ending matters, because it hints at a shape that was given, not a shape that simply is. Once you hold that picture, the other uses are the same hand moving over different things: over a number with an awkward tail, over a person with no obvious gap, over a pair of lips closing into a circle.

可以想成用手沿著一條邊摸過去,卻找不到任何會刮到手的角:線就這樣彎過去又繞回來。整個字就是這個畫面——尖的地方被拿掉了,或者本來就沒有。字尾的 -ed 有意義,它暗示這個形狀是被弄出來的,不只是本來如此。抓住這個畫面之後,其他用法就是同一隻手摸過不同的東西:摸過一個尾數難看的數字、摸過一個沒有明顯缺口的人、摸過一對收成圓形的嘴唇。

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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。

roundedadj/ˈɹaʊndɪd/

  • 1

    Made into a circle or sphere.

  • 2

    Complete or balanced.

    • Her character is much less rounded in the writing, since she has but one goal to fulfill in all of her scenes.
  • 3

    mathematicssciencesDescribing a number that has been changed to its nearest desired value.

  • 4

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesEnding in a broad arch.

  • 5

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesPronounced with the lips drawn together.

    • The sound /u/ is a rounded vowel.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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