喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈtɜːrnɪŋ/ · /ˈtɜːnɪŋ/岔路；路口

    A road that joins the road you are travelling along, so that you can leave your road and drive or walk into it.

    that joins the road you are travelling along連接你正在走的那條路的 A road一條路, so that you can leave your road and drive or walk into it讓你可以離開原本的路，開車或走進去

    In directions, turnings are counted as you pass them: the first, the second, and so on.

    In directions在指路的時候, turnings are counted as you pass them岔路是照你經過的順序算的: the first, the second, and so on第一個、第二個，依此類推

    示範例句 · Example

    Take the second turning on the left, and the library is right there.

    逐字走左邊第二個岔路，圖書館就在那裡。

    turning 可以想成「你可以轉進去的那條路」——英文用「轉彎」這個動作來幫那條旁邊的路命名，所以整個字是站在大馬路上、正要經過它的人的角度在看。因為是這樣看的，動詞就跟著固定下來：轉進去說 take a turning，經過了沒轉進去說 miss a turning，轉錯了說 take a wrong turning，而且它可以一個一個數過去——the first / second / third turning，這正是英國人報路的方式（第二個路口左轉）。另外，turning 是英式說法，美式多半直接說 turn，兩邊講的是同一件事。

    常見搭配

    • take the first/second turning

      轉進第一／第二個路口

      to leave the road you are on by driving or walking into the side road you have counted to

      Take the first turning after the traffic lights.

    • a wrong turning

      轉錯的路

      a side road that you go into by mistake

      He must have taken a wrong turning in the dark.

    • the turning on the left/right

      左手邊／右手邊的那個路口

      the side road on that side of the road you are on

      It's the turning on the right, just before the bridge.

    • miss a turning

      錯過路口、開過頭

      to go past a side road without going into it

      Sorry, I missed the turning — I'll go round again.

    • the next turning

      下一個路口

      the first side road you will come to

      Wait for the next turning, then go left.

    意思相近

    turnturn-offside roadjunctionexit

core核心畫面

Picture yourself driving or walking along one road, and another road runs into it from the side. That opening — the place where you could turn off and leave the road you are on — is a turning. It is named after the action you would take there: the spot exists, in this word, as a chance to turn.

可以想成你正沿著一條路走或開，旁邊有另一條路接了進來，形成一個開口——那個「可以拐進去、離開現在這條路」的地方，就是 turning。這個字是從「轉彎」這個動作長出來的：它指的不是那條路本身有多長、通到哪裡，而是那個讓你有機會轉的位置。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

複數 turnings

意思相近

turnturn-offside roadjunctionexit

原始詞典資料7 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。

turningnoun詞源 1/ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/

  • 1

    A turn or deviation from a straight course.

    • Take the second turning on the left.
    • Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.
  • 2

    At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.

  • 3

    The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.

  • 4

    The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).

    • Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.
    • A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
  • 5

    One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.

    • Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president.
  • 6

    Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.

    • The turnings get into your trouser turnups!

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。