- 1啪、砰（用扁平的東西打到東西的一聲悶響）；重擊、拍打
The short, hard sound of something hitting a solid surface — a cricket bat meeting the ball, a book dropped flat on a desk, a rolled-up newspaper hitting a table. A thwack is heavier and flatter than a 'click' or a 'tap', and it usually has something wide and flat in it.
The short, hard sound of something hitting a solid surface指的是某樣東西撞到硬表面時,那種短促、硬硬的聲音 — a cricket bat meeting the ball, a book dropped flat on a desk, a rolled-up newspaper hitting a table像板球棒打到球、書平平地掉在書桌上、捲起來的報紙打到桌面。A thwack is heavier and flatter than a 'click' or a 'tap'thwack 比 'click' 或 'tap' 更重、更扁平, and it usually has something wide and flat in it裡面通常有個又寬又扁的東西在起作用。
It works as a noun ('there was a loud thwack') and as a verb ('he thwacked the ball into the net'), and you will also see it written on its own in comics and stories as the sound itself: THWACK! The word is informal and slightly playful — it is the kind of word that makes a sentence fun, so writers use it to bring a scene to life rather than to be exact.
It works as a noun ('there was a loud thwack') and as a verb ('he thwacked the ball into the net')它可以當名詞用('there was a loud thwack'),也可以當動詞用('he thwacked the ball into the net'), and you will also see it written on its own in comics and stories as the sound itself: THWACK!你也會在漫畫和故事裡看到它單獨寫出來當狀聲詞:THWACK!The word is informal and slightly playful這個字很口語,也帶點玩鬧感 — it is the kind of word that makes a sentence fun它是那種會讓句子變有趣的字, so writers use it to bring a scene to life rather than to be exact所以作家用它是為了讓場景生動,而不是為了精確。
Its cousin 'whack' means much the same and is far more common; 'thwack' sounds a bit more British, a bit more storybook. When it describes hitting a person, it is usually a light or comic blow, not real violence.
Its cousin 'whack' means much the same and is far more common它的親戚 'whack' 意思差不多,而且常見得多; 'thwack' sounds a bit more British, a bit more storybook'thwack' 聽起來比較英式,比較像故事書裡的字。When it describes hitting a person當它用來形容打到人的時候, it is usually a light or comic blow, not real violence通常是輕輕一下或帶點滑稽的一擊,不是真的暴力。
core核心畫面
組成Mostly an imitation of the sound itself, the way 'bang' and 'crash' are — English calls these onomatopoeia. It probably also picked up an older English verb for patting or striking gently (Old English þaccian, 'to pat, to tap, to strike lightly'), which is why the modern word still carries the idea of a flat hand or flat object.
同家族的字
- whacksame sound-word family; whack is the plainer, commoner version
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。
thwackverb/θwæk/
- 1
To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
- This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop.
- Flaies lustily thwack, / least plough séede lack.
- 2
To drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting; to knock.
- But let him ſvveare ſo, and he ſhall not ſtay, / VVee'l thvvack him hence vvith Diſtaffes.
- 3
To pack (people or things) closely together; to cram.
- [W]hen hee comes to deſcribe the office of his imaginarie doctor [he] thvvacks fourteene Scriptures into the margent, vvhereof not any one hath any iuſt colour of inference to his purpoſe: […]
- [W]ho vvould have thought a man could have thvvackt together ſo many incongruous ſimilitudes, had it not been to defend the motley i[n]coherence of a patch'd Miſſall?
- 4
To decisively defeat (someone) in a contest; to beat, to thrash.
- 3 [Servingman] VVhy here's he that vvas vvont to thvvacke our Generall, Caius Martius. / 1 VVhy do you ſay, thvvacke our Generall? / 3 I do not ſay thvvacke our Generall, but he vvas alvvayes good enough for him.
- [W]hat adventurous knight ever thought of the lady's terror, when he went to thwack giant, dragon, or magician, in her presence, and for her deliverance?
- 5
obsoleteTo crowd or pack (a place or thing) with people, objects, etc.
- And my lad Aſcanius with a Troian mantel adorning, / Weau'd woorks thwackt with honor, to her gifts this parlye ſhe lincketh.
- 6
To fall down hard with a thump.
- And see, that urchin, ho-ieroe! / His truant legs they sink from under, / And to the quaking sheet below [i.e., ice on which he has been skating], / Down thwacks he, with a thud like thunder!
- 7
obsoleteTo be crammed or filled full.
- [A]ll that vvere vvithin the audience of theſe vvords and dovvn the Church, vvhich vvas as full as it could thvvack in thick multitudes, gave a loud general applauſe.
- 8
obsoleterareOf people: to crowd or pack a place.
- All the vviſe vvenches i'the Tovvn vvill thvvack to ſuch Sanctuaries, vvhen the times are troubleſome, and Troopers trace the ſtreets in terror.
thwacknoun/θwæk/
- 1
An act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; a whack; also, a powerful stroke involved in such hitting; a blow, a strike.
- Him Ralph encountred, and straight grew / A fierce Dispute betwixt them two: / Th'one arm'd with Metall, t'other with Wood; / This fit for bruise, and that for Blood. / With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, / Hard Crab-tree and old Iron rang; / While none that saw them could divine / To which side Conquest would encline: […]
- Noble Captain, Lend a reaſonable Thvvack, for the Love of God, vvith that Cane of yours, over theſe poor Shoulders.
- 2
A dull or heavy slapping sound.
- I had scrambled out of the coach, and was instinctively settling my cravat, when somebody brushed roughly by me, and I heard a smart thwack upon the coachman’s ear. […] And then came a second thwack, aimed at the driver's other ear, but which missed it, and hit him on the nose, causing a terrible effusion of blood.
- "It's a comfort they're most on'em females," he pursued, sounding a thwack on his knee as he settled himself agreeably in his seat.
thwackintj/θwæk/
- 1
Used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped.
- Three watrie clowds ſhymring toe the craft they rampired hizzing, / Three whern's fierd gliſtring, with ſouthwynds rufflered huffling. / Now doe they rayſe gaſtly lightnings, now griſlye reboundings / Of ruffe raffe roaring, mens harts with terror agryſing. / With peale meale ramping, with thwick thwack ſturdilye thundring.
- And then—Thwack! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate, not head—clear across.
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