喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/kəˈnæl/運河

    A long, narrow path of water that people dig into the ground, so boats can travel or water can reach a place.

    示範例句 · Example

    We walked along the side of the canal and watched the slow boats go by.

    逐字我們沿著運河的旁邊走，看著緩慢的船經過。

    canal 是人挖出來的水道，跟天然的 river（河流）不一樣——river 是自己流出來的，canal 是人為了讓船通行或把水引到某地而挖的。可以想成「一條裝滿水的人工長水溝」。它也用在身體或牙齒的「管道」，像 birth canal（產道）、root canal（牙根管）。

    常見搭配

    • canal boat

      運河船（窄長型）

      a long, narrow boat made for travelling on canals

      They spent their holiday on a canal boat in France.

    • canal bank

      運河岸

      the raised ground along the side of a canal

      We sat on the canal bank and ate our sandwiches.

    • canal system

      運河網／運河系統

      a group of connected canals in an area

      The old canal system once carried coal across the whole country.

    • root canal

      （牙齒）根管；根管治療

      the narrow space inside a tooth, or the dental work done there

      Having a root canal is not as scary as it sounds.

    意思相近

    waterwaychannelwatercourse

core核心畫面

Picture a long, straight channel of water that people have dug into the land — not a natural river that wanders, but a made with steady banks, so boats can travel through or water can be carried to where it is needed.

可以想成一條又長又直、人挖出來的水道：不是自然彎彎曲曲的河，而是人工開鑿、兩岸整齊的水路，好讓船通行，或把水引到需要的地方。

From the word’s history

From Latin canalis 'pipe, channel, groove', from canna 'reed' — a hollow reed was an early natural pipe for carrying water. That picture of a hollow channel guiding water straight through is exactly the modern core.

來自拉丁文 canalis「管子、水道、溝槽」，源自 canna「蘆葦」——中空的蘆葦是早期天然的水管。那個「中空的通道把水直直引過去」的畫面，正好就是今天的核心。

etymonline.com/word/canal; Wiktionary 'canalis' (from canna 'reed')

複數 canals

意思相近

waterwaychannelwatercourse

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。

Canalname

  • 1

    A surname.

canalnoun/kəˈnæl/

  • 1

    An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

  • 2

    anatomybiologybotanyA tubular channel within the body or within a plant.

    • The fossilised jaw of T. trusleri has a huge canal running through it and that’s believed to have carried all the nerve and related tissue needed for the sense of electroception.
  • 3

    astronomynatural-sciencesOne of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals

canalverb/kəˈnæl/

  • 1

    To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage

    • In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded.
  • 2

    To travel along a canal by boat

    • Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.

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。