- 1馬廄空間、可容納馬匹的廄舍;(鐵路)列車停放(處)
Room in a building for keeping horses — not the horses, not the animals' care, just the space itself. "The farm has stabling for twelve horses" means there is room for twelve.
Room空間 in a building在建築物裡 for keeping horses用來養馬的——not the horses不是指馬本身,not the animals' care也不是照顧牠們這件事,just the space itself就只是那個空間。"The farm has stabling for twelve horses"「這座農場有能容納十二匹馬的 stabling」 means意思是 there is room for twelve有十二匹馬的空間。
It is an uncountable noun, so you never say a stabling or two stablings; you say stabling for six, plenty of stabling, no stabling.
It它 is an uncountable noun是個不可數名詞,so所以 you never say你絕不會說 a stabling or two stablings「a stabling」或「two stablings」;you say你會說 stabling for six「stabling for six」、plenty of stabling「plenty of stabling」、no stabling「no stabling」。
It turns up in advertisements for country houses, on riding-school websites, and in writing about racing, because those are the places where people need to say how many horses a building can hold. Outside that world, most people just say stables. Britain uses it more than America.
It它 turns up出現 in advertisements for country houses在鄉間房屋的廣告裡、on riding-school websites馬術學校的網站上、and in writing about racing還有賽馬相關的文章裡,because因為 those are the places這些地方 where people need to say剛好需要說出 how many horses a building can hold一棟建築能容納幾匹馬。Outside that world在這個圈子之外,most people大部分人 just say就只說 stables stables。Britain英國 uses it比美國 more than America更常用這個字。
There is also a second use, mainly on the railways: stabling is where trains are parked overnight, and railway workers talk about stabling sidings — the word travelled from horses to trains, as many railway words did. And because stable can be a verb (to stable a horse is to keep it in a stable), stabling can also be the -ing form of that verb: "He was stabling the horses when we arrived."
There is also a second use還有第二種用法,mainly主要 on the railways用在鐵路上:stabling stabling is where trains are parked overnight指的是火車過夜停放的地方,and railway workers鐵路工人 talk about會講到 stabling sidings「stabling sidings」(停車側線)——the word這個字 travelled就這樣從 from horses to trains馬轉用到火車上,as many railway words did跟很多鐵路用字一樣。And而且 because stable can be a verb因為 stable 也可以當動詞(to stable a horse把一匹馬 stable 就是 is to keep it in a stable把牠養在馬廄裡),stabling stabling can also be也可以是 the -ing form of that verb這個動詞的 -ing 形式:"He was stabling the horses when we arrived."「我們到的時候他正在把馬牽進馬廄」。
core核心畫面
組成stable (a building for horses) + -ing, the ending that here makes a noun for the thing provided or the space available, as in housing, seating, flooring, parking. This stable came into English from Old French, from a Latin word for a standing-place.
原始詞典資料2 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。
stablingnoun
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A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle; a stable.
- There was a very fine house and a great deal of stabling; we went into the yard through a stone gateway, and John asked for Mr. York.
- I forget how much stabling there is, but we always had a lot of horses there, twenty-five or thirty, and yet there always seemed to be plenty of room, and plenty of work for more.
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。