喜樂美語
  1. 1aC1/əˈdʒeɪsənt/相鄰的；毗鄰的

    正式next to something, especially a room, building, or piece of land.

    示範例句 · Example

    We stayed in adjacent rooms at the hotel, so we could visit easily.

    逐字我們住在飯店相鄰的房間，所以我們可以輕鬆互相拜訪。

    「adjacent」是比較正式的「緊挨著、就在旁邊」，常用來說房間、建築物或土地。後面常接 to：adjacent to the park＝緊鄰公園。比 next to 更正式；adjoining 還帶「連在一起、共用一邊」的感覺。核心畫面可以想成「就在旁邊、幾乎碰到」。

    常見搭配

    • adjacent to

      緊鄰；毗鄰

      immediately next to something

      The playground is adjacent to the school gate.

    • adjacent rooms

      相鄰的房間

      rooms that are next to each other

      The twins asked for adjacent rooms on the school trip.

    • adjacent building / buildings

      相鄰的建築物

      a building or buildings next to another

      Smoke from the kitchen drifted toward the adjacent building.

    • adjacent area / land

      相鄰的區域／土地

      an area or piece of land next to another place

      They planted flowers on the adjacent land.

    • immediately adjacent

      緊緊相鄰；緊挨著

      right next to, with almost no space between

      The cafe is immediately adjacent to the museum entrance.

    • the adjacent table / seat

      隔壁／旁邊的桌子或座位

      the table or seat right next to yours

      A family sat down at the adjacent table.

    意思相近

    neighboringadjoiningnextnearbybordering

    用法接近

    next-doorside-by-sidecontiguous

core核心畫面

Picture two rooms on a plan sharing a wall, or two plots of land meeting along a fence line. Adjacent is that touching-at-the-edge relationship: not just close by, but right up against, with nothing in between.

可以想成：平面圖上兩個房間共用一道牆，或是兩塊地沿著同一條圍籬相接。adjacent 講的就是這種「邊靠著邊」的關係——不只是在附近，而是緊挨著，中間沒有別的東西。

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。

意思相近

neighboringadjoiningnextnearbybordering

用法接近

next-doorside-by-sidecontiguous

原始詞典資料6 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。

adjacentadj/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/

  • 1

    Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

    • Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacent.
  • 2

    Just before, after, or facing.

    • The picture is on the adjacent page.
  • 3

    Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

    • It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.
    • First of all, she's probably the most popular politics-adjacent figure in the country. She's not a politician. She's never run for anything, but I have said for a long time – I think we all agree – if she did ever want to run for something, she would be right at the front of the line.

adjacentnoun/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/

  • 1

    Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.

    • Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.
    • Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…]

adjacentprep/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/

  • 1

    Next to; beside.

    • The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
    • A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
  • 2

    Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

    • While Amazon has increasingly become a one-stop shop for some people, we’re also seeing a large proliferation of online companies looking to connect with users wherever they happen to be spending the most time, whether that’s on a social media platform, or on a site that caters to interests adjacent to the businesses’s own — and most importantly not necessarily on the company’s own web properties.

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。