喜樂美語

One way to picture spoken: the words have already left the mouth and gone out as sound. The word marks that finished state, not the act of talking. After have, it says the talking is done. After be, it says the words were the thing that was said. From there it can describe anything that came out of a mouth - spoken English, the spoken word - always with writing on the other side. Turned towards the person, it hooks onto another word to say how they talk: soft-spoken, plain-spoken. And if somebody has already opened their mouth to ask for a person or a thing, that person or thing is spoken for.

spoken 的各種用法，可以想成都從同一個畫面長出來：話已經離開嘴巴，變成聲音送了出去。這個字標的不是「正在講」，而是「已經說出口」的那個狀態。所以放在 have 後面，它表示話講完了；放在 be 後面，它表示這些話是被講出來的。往前一步看，凡是「說出來的」東西都可以叫 spoken——說出來的英文、說出來的那句話——對照的一邊永遠是寫下來的。再把鏡頭轉到人身上，一個人講話的樣子也黏在這個字後面，變成 soft-spoken、plain-spoken。最後，如果有人替某個人或某樣東西先開口要了，那個人或那樣東西就 is spoken for：話一說出去，位子就佔住了。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary analyses the form as spoke + -n: the past-tense stem plus the old participle ending that also gives broken, chosen and written. That ending is what marks the word as already said, which is the state every later use leans on.

Wiktionary 把這個字拆成 spoke 加 -n；同一個字尾也出現在 broken、chosen、written 上。這個字尾標的就是「已經…完了」。後面所有形容詞的用法，都靠著「已經說出口」這個狀態。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract), spoken: 'Morphologically spoke + -n.' — source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:211743745:10042

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同家族的字

v過去式 spoke過去分詞 spoken-ing speaking三單 speaks

a比較級 more spoken最高級 most spoken

意思相近

saidoralsoftly-spokentalkedverbalgentle-voicedutteredunwrittenoutspoken

意思相反

writtenloudunspokenbluntprinted

原始詞典資料4 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。

spokenadj/ˈspəʊ.k(ə)n/

  • 1

    Expressed in speech.

  • 2

    Speaking in a specified way.

    • soft-spoken
    • well-spoken
  • 3

    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsOf a language, produced by articulate sounds.

    • Algebra is not a spoken language like French or Spanish, it is a math language.

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。