Picture someone telling you now about something that is still ahead, so it does not hit you unprepared. The information always arrives before the event — that timing is the whole point, and how serious the thing ahead is decides which of the two senses you are hearing.

可以想成:有人在事情發生之前先告訴你,讓它不會突然砸到你身上。這個字的關鍵一直是「消息比事情早到」;至於前面那件事有多嚴重,就決定了你聽到的是哪一種用法。

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原始詞典資料8 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。

Warnname

  • 1

    A surname.

warnverb/wɔːn/

  • 1

    To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:

    • We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic about the accident.
    • I phoned to warn him of the road closure.
  • 2

    To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:

    • I warned him he'd be getting a huge box of birthday presents from me.
  • 3

    To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:

    • The sheriff warned her to appear in court.
    • Committee being warned these following were absent or short …
  • 4

    obsoleteTo make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:

    • Hark! the clock is warning ten;
    • No, not a word more, Andrew; the clock has warned for nine, and I am off.
  • 5

    To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.

    • He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.
    • Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.
  • 6

    To advise or order to go or stay away.

    • A sign warns trespassers off/away from the site.
  • 7

    To give warning.

    • then Iames Cephas and Iohn [...] agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore.
    • She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a different name to warn that they might not come true [...].

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