Picture something measured from the ground up, reaching further than you expect: a person, a tree, a building. The word is about that upward distance. Push the idea past what is reasonable and English gets two fixed phrases out of it — a job too big to manage, a story stretched past belief.
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原始詞典資料11 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。
talladj/tɔːl/
- 1
Having a top that is far up (contrast: deep (having a bottom that is far down' ).)
- Being tall is an advantage in basketball.
- Ostriches are the tallest living birds.
- 2
Having a top that is far up (contrast: deep (having a bottom that is far down' ).)
- Tall trees, at least about 30m high.
- To him it seemed that the Bornean rainforests, the tallest on Earth, were places that had: 'remained untouched and unchanged since remote geological epochs[.]'
- 3
Having a top that is far up (contrast: deep (having a bottom that is far down' ).)
- 4
Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
- "That's tall talk." "Not an inch taller than the truth."
- 5
obsoleteOld senses that arose before the height-related senses
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obsoleteOld senses that arose before the height-related senses
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obsoleteOld senses that arose before the height-related senses
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archaicOld senses that arose before the height-related senses
tallnoun/tɔːl/
- 1
Someone or something that is tall.
- But in the second generation of hybrids (from seed of the first) talls and dwarfs were both present, and in the proportion of twelve talls to four dwarfs.
- The industries that best accommodate talls are those that have faced personal injury lawsuits.
- 2
A clothing size for taller people.
- Do you have this in a tall?
- 3
A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces.
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