喜樂美語

Picture a flat circle you could hold between two fingers — a coin, a counter, a slice cut straight across. Computers borrowed that shape for the spinning plate that stores your files, which is why one word covers both a game piece and a hard drive.

可以想成：一片可以用兩根手指夾住的圓——硬幣、棋子、橫切下來的一片。電腦沿用了這個形狀來稱呼裡面那片會轉的儲存碟，所以同一個字既是遊戲裡的圓片，也是硬碟。拼法上美式寫 disk，英式常寫 disc；不過音樂光碟兩邊都習慣寫 compact disc。

複數 disks

原始詞典資料12 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。

disknoun/dɪsk/

  • 1

    A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

    • A coin is a disk of metal.
  • 2

    geometrymathematicssciencesA two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.

  • 3

    Something resembling a disk.

    • Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
  • 4

    anatomymedicinesciencesAn intervertebral disc

  • 5

    datedA vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

    • Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
  • 6

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleA type of harrow.

  • 7

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesA ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

diskverb/dɪsk/

  • 1

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo harrow.

    • That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring.
    • The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.
  • 2

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • floppy disk
  • hard disk
  • optical disk

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。