- 1nA1/kəmˈpjuːtər/ · /kəmˈpjuːtə/電腦
An electronic machine that can store and work with large amounts of information very quickly.
An electronic machine一種電子機器 that can store and work with large amounts of information very quickly能夠非常快速地儲存和處理大量的資訊。
示範例句 · Example
Mei uses her computer to write reports and look up information for school.
逐字美使用她的電腦寫報告和查詢學校的資料。
「computer」就是中文說的「電腦」或「電腦機」。它能快速儲存、處理大量資料，包括桌上型電腦（desktop computer）、筆記型電腦（laptop）、平板電腦（tablet）等各種形式。
常見搭配
use a computer
使用電腦
to work with a computer
She uses a computer every day at work.
computer screen
電腦螢幕
the display part of a computer
Don't sit too close to the computer screen.
computer lab
電腦教室
a room with many computers, especially in a school
We have computer lab every Thursday afternoon.
on the computer
在電腦上
using a computer for a task
I found the answer on the computer.
core核心畫面
A machine that 'computes' — it takes in information, works on it very fast, and keeps it: a thinking-and-storing electronic box.
From the word’s history
From 'compute' (to calculate) + -er (a thing that does it): originally a person who did calculations, later the electronic machine that does them.
computer＝compute（計算）＋-er（做這件事的東西）。本來指「負責算數的人」，後來才變成「替你算數的電子機器」，所以核心一直是「計算」。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'computer'
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。
computernoun/kəmˈpjuː.tə/
- 1
A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
- Meronyms: processor, microprocessor, CPU
- I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.
- 2
historicalA person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
- I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten.
- By which manner of ſpeaking, this Propheteſs, who is ſo exact a Computer, would have us, I ſuppoſe, to conclude, that it would be a great miſtake to think that the number of Angels was either 9, or 11 for one of Men.
- 3
historicalA person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
- Coordinate term: (female) computress
computerverb/kəmˈpjuː.tə/
- 1
rareTo use a computer.
- Cool he was computering, though. My dad, who is only in his 60's (mom too) thinks he is too busy to get connected to the internet. Oh well. More bandwidth for the rest of us, huh?
- I don't know if you have the same violent mood-swing issues that I do, but I was bustling around the house feeling very useful and good, and then I was sitting here computering for a while, and suddenly it was like a giant butterfly net scooped me up and threw me into an old mayonnaise jar, […]
- 2
rareTo send via computer.
- They had immediately computered the description out to the scores of law enforcement agencies in Southern California.
- 'Nah. It was him hated it more than me. Fish out of water. Cops watching every move he makes. Memos about him computered to every nick in the land. He was too innocent for this hi-tech world, Bobby. Would've been back inside in no time at all.'
- 3
rareTo transfer onto a computer; to computerize.
- I know there are storage warehouses in New York and Virginia and all over the place, St. Louis, and many other places, that keep these things. I think this is a very fertile area for this committee, and perhaps computering it, or microfilm preservation, or things of that sort.
- Our sincere thanks are due to Antje Reuter, Jens Adam and Uwe Horstmann for computering the manuscript and Ralph Phillips and Kirsten Techmer for proof reading it.
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