喜樂美語

Picture the moment you come in from a and stand dripping on the floor — clothes heavy, hair flat, a small forming. That state is the adjective; the event that put you there is the noun.

你從大雨裡走進屋，站在門口滴著水——衣服變重了，頭髮貼在額頭上，腳邊慢慢積出一小灘。這個「濕到會滴水」的狀態就是形容詞的 soaking；而讓你變成這樣的那一場淋，就是名詞的 soaking。同一個場景，一個講狀態，一個講事件。

One branch

濕透的狀態，與造成它的那一場淋

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very wet · adjective · B2

Very wet — so wet that water drips off. It can describe a person, their clothes or hair, or a thing like a towel, the ground, or a bench, and it is very often used in the phrase 'soaking wet'.

濕透的

同家族的字

複數 soakings

意思相近

soakeddrenchedsoppingdrippingwet throughsoddendrenchingdownpourwetting

意思相反

drybone-dry

原始詞典資料5 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。

soakingnoun

  • 1

    Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

    • "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains".
  • 2

    The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by Mormons in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.

    • That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking.
    • Mormonism is a culture very much predicated on puritanical commitments[…]the Amazon series Alpha House[…]made much of Mormon soaking, an alternative sex practice engaged in by two LDS characters on the show. Soaking basically allows for penis-vagina penetration but absolutely no friction. Insertion is OK; pumping will send you to hell.

soakingadj

  • 1

    Extremely wet; saturated.

    • I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.
  • 2

    Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.

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。