You can think of it as a thin line running through a body — a channel with something flowing or held inside it, branching out and showing on the surface.
From the word’s history
From Latin vēna, a blood-vessel — the anatomical channel; the extended uses in English all copy that shape onto other bodies (a leaf, a rock, a piece of writing).
來自拉丁文 vēna（血管），原本就是解剖學上的那條管子。英文後來的用法都是把這個形狀「借」到別的身體上——葉子的身體、石頭的身體、一篇文章的身體，裡面都可以有 vein。
Wiktionary: vein — from Middle English veine, from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna ("a blood-vessel; vein"), of uncertain origin.
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原始詞典資料10 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。
veinnoun/veɪn/
- 1
anatomymedicinesciencesA blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
- The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.
- An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce. Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made, Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, […]
- 2
The entrails of a shrimp.
- 3
biologybotanynatural-sciencesIn leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
- 4
biologynatural-scienceszoologyThe nervure of an insect’s wing.
- 5
A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
- 6
geographygeologynatural-sciencesA sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
- They generally occur in the earth in what are called veins, and are seldom found in the pure metallic state, but generally in combination with some other substance, in which state they are called ores.
- 7
A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
- in the same vein
- He[…]is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.
- 8
A style, tendency, or quality.
- The play is in a satirical vein.
- certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
- down to the veins of earth
- I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins
veinverb/veɪn/
- 1
To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
- […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]
- “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […]”
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。