詞彙精選：tap的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

n.

輕打，輕敲 [C]

龍頭；閥門；旋塞

例句：

The tap on the cask was dirty.

桶上的塞子很髒。

例句：

Which is the hot tap?

哪一個是熱水龍頭？

電話竊聽；竊聽器

例句：

Hacking into an optical network like this is the modern equivalent of a wire tap.

像這樣窺竊光纖網絡就是現代版的電話竊聽。

例句：

The detectives put a tap on the suspect's telephone.

偵察人員在嫌疑犯的電話上裝竊聽裝置。

（補鞋的）掌子，鞋掌

踢踏舞；踢踏舞鞋

例句：

She began to learn both tap and ballet from an aunt.

她開始跟隨姑姑學習踢踏舞及芭蕾舞。

v.

輕打，輕敲，敲打出 [T]

例句：

The tooth hurts when I tap it.

我輕敲時，牙齒會痛。

例句：

I can tap it over the net with a backhand ahot.

我可以用反手拍打擊將球打過網。

打節拍 [T]

例句：

Try this exercise keeping an even beat. Tap with your foot or count in your head.

嘗試這個練習保存一段平穩的節拍，用你的腳打拍子或在心裏數。

利用，開發，發掘（已有的資源、知識）[T]

例句：

It is very important to tap intellectual resources.

智力開發是很重要的。

例句：

Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths.

讓我們一起探索星空，征服沙漠，根除疾病，發掘海洋的深度。

竊聽，（在電話上）安裝竊聽器、搭線竊聽 [T]

例句：

I guess our telephone has been tapped.

我猜想我們的電話被竊聽了。

例句：

It is illegal to tap a telephone wire.

竊聽電話是非法的。

輕打，輕敲，敲打出 [I]

例句：

Someone is tapping on the window.

有人在敲窗戶。

例句：

The butler ventured to tap at his door.

管家壯着膽子敲了敲他的房門。

（從容器等）汲取（液體）；導出，使流出 [I]

例句：

He tapped off cider from a cask.

他旋開桶塞汲取蘋果酒。

例句：

The workers tapped the rubber trees.

工人們割橡膠樹皮採膠液。

【美國英語】選擇；推選 [T]

例句：

He was tapped as president of the college.

他被選爲該學院的院長。

例句：

They tapped her for a reportorial assignment.

他們指定她去完成一次報道任務。

輕聲走 [I]

例句：

The pupils tapped across the room.

學生們輕聲地穿過房間。

跳踢踏舞

例句：

I enjoy what I do, I tap dance to work every day.

我享受我做的事情, 我每天都跳着踢踏舞去工作。

例句：

On the table was an upside down pot and a duck tap dancing on it.

桌子上反扣着一個盆，上面有隻鴨子在跳踢踏舞。

二、詞義辨析：

knock,tap,rap,pat

這些動詞均有“敲、擊”之意。knock指用拳頭或其它器械猛敲或猛打；也指用手輕敲某物。tap多指慢慢地連續地輕擊或輕拍。rap指用手指或木棒等快速地輕敲或急拍。pat指用手輕拍以示同情、贊同或愛撫。

三、相關短語：

on tap

現成的,可以隨時取用的

tap dance

n. 踢踏舞

tap water

n. 自來水（非蒸餾水）

tap out

打出

spinal tap

脊椎抽液

tap wrench

鉸槓，絲錐扳手，螺絲攻扳手

tap dancing

n. 踢踏舞

water tap

水龍頭

四、參考例句：

Turn the tap off.

把水龍頭關掉。

Who left the tap running?

誰忘了關水龍頭了?

Which is the hot tap?

哪一個是熱水龍頭？

The tap on the cask was dirty.

桶上的塞子很髒。

A tap in the kitchen was dripping.

廚房的水龍頭在滴水。

The tooth hurts when I tap it.

我輕敲時牙齒會痛。

We should tap the potential of employees.

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Toby is turning on the tap.

託比正在開水龍頭。

The water leaked from the tap drop by drop.

水一滴一滴地從龍頭漏出來。

It is illegal to tap a telephone wire.

竊聽電話是非法的。