- 1nB1/ˈkælkjəleɪtər/ · /ˈkælkjəleɪtə/計算機
a small electronic machine that can add, multiply, and do other number work for you.
示範例句 · Example
Mei used a calculator to check her maths homework.
逐字美用了一台計算機去檢查她的數學回家作業。
「calculator」是英文裡「專門幫你算數的小機器」——按加、減、乘、除就能算出答案。核心畫面可以想成「一台幫你算加減乘除的小機器」，常說 use a calculator、work something out on a calculator、a pocket calculator（口袋型／袖珍計算機）。跟 computer 容易搞混——computer 是電腦（能上網、打字、玩遊戲）；calculator 只做數字計算。台灣口語裡「計算機」多半指 calculator，電腦才是 computer。
常見搭配
use a calculator
使用計算機
to do number work with a calculator
The children are taught to use calculators from a young age.
work something out on a calculator
用計算機算出某事
to find an answer by using a calculator
Work the total out on a calculator if the sum is long.
add something up on a calculator
用計算機把某數加總
to find a total by using a calculator
I added the cost up on a calculator.
a pocket calculator
袖珍／口袋型計算機
a small calculator you can carry easily
I took out my pocket calculator and added up the figures.
an electronic calculator
電子計算機
a calculator that uses electricity or batteries
Candidates may use electronic calculators in the exam.
a desk calculator
桌上型計算機
a larger calculator made for using on a desk
He had a big fancy desk calculator.
a hand-held calculator
手持式計算機
a small calculator that you hold in your hand
The calculations can be done using a hand-held calculator.
core核心畫面
Picture the small machine with a and a one-line screen that does the number work for you — you press the numbers, it gives the answer. Calculator is the thing that does the calculating, whether it sits in your bag or lives as an app on your phone.
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。
同家族的字
- 名詞calculation
- 動詞calculate
- 形容詞calculableincalculablecalculatedcalculating
- 副詞calculatedly
複數 calculators
原始詞典資料4 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。
calculatornoun/ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)/
- 1
A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
- electronic calculator; pocket calculator
- The calculator on a bookkeeper's desk in the 1950s was an adding machine with mechanical guts.
- 2
historicalA person who performs mathematical calculation.
- During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.
- First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.
- 3
A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
- Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator
- He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.
- 4
obsoleteA set of mathematical tables.
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