One picture carries the whole word: something is standing between you and what would otherwise hit you. On a that something is a rock wall and what it stops is the wind. Step behind it and the noise drops. Nothing has been removed from the world — the storm is still out there, a metre away — you are simply not in its path. Every other use of sheltered is that same wall placed somewhere else: between a child and the hard parts of life, or between an old person living alone and the moment something goes wrong.

可以想成一個畫面:有東西站在你和「原本會打到你的東西」中間。在山坡上,那個東西是一片岩壁,擋掉的是風。走到它後面,聲音就小了。注意世界並沒有變——暴風還在外面,就在一公尺之外。只是你不在它的路徑上了。sheltered 其他所有用法,都是把同一面牆搬到別的地方去:擋在小孩和人生的粗糙面中間;擋在獨居長輩和「萬一出事」那一刻中間。所以每次看到這個字,先問一句:這裡的牆是什麼?它擋掉了什麼?答對這兩個問題,句子就通了。

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原始詞典資料3 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。

shelteredadj/ˈʃɛltɚd/

  • 1

    Protected, as from wind or weather.

    • The boat was much safer, during the storm, in the sheltered cove.
    • "A sunny, sheltered corner," he remarked. "An ideal spot for a deck-chair and a book."
  • 2

    human-sciencessciencessocial-science(Of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians, often lacking social skills or worldly experience as a result.

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。