belonging

英語

發音

• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ/
• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ/

• 音頻 (美式)：

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• 韻部：-ɒŋɪŋ
• 斷字：be‧long‧ing

詞源1

源自中古英語 belonginge, belanging, belangand，等同於belong +‎ -ing。

動詞

belonging

1. belong 的現在分詞

詞源2

源自belong +‎ -ing。

名詞

belonging (可數 和 不可數，複數 belongings)

1. 〈不可數〉 歸屬感

   I have a feeling of belonging in London.

   在倫敦，我有一種歸屬感。

   A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.

   似乎人類都需要歸屬感。

2. 〈可數〉(基本用複數) 所有物

   Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.

   走之前記得把你的東西都帶走。

   • 大約1604 威廉·莎士比亞, 一報還一報，第一場，第一幕，^[1]

     […] Thyself and thy belongings

     Are not thine own so proper as to waste

     Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.

   • 1939, 約翰·斯坦貝克，憤怒的葡萄，紐約: Compass, 1958, 第9章，第117頁，^[2]

     In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.

   • 1966, 杜魯門·卡波特，冷血，紐約: Modern Library, 1992, 第I部，第22頁，^[3]

     Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch […]

3. (僅複數，口語，舊用法) 家人，親戚
   • 1854, 威廉·梅克比斯·賽克萊，紐克姆一家，倫敦: Bradbury & Evans, 第33章，第322頁，^[4]

     When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.

   • 1896, 約瑟夫·康拉德，海隅逐客，第II部，第三章，^[5]

     As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.

近義詞

• (所有物)： possession, thing

異序詞

• englobing