喜樂美語

Temperature is the single number that tells you how hot or cold something is — the reading on a . Hold that one picture: a scale climbing up when things get warmer and dropping when they get cooler. Everything else the word does is just pointing that same 'how hot, how cold' measure at a different thing — your body, an illness, even the mood in a room.

可以想成 temperature 就是「告訴你一樣東西有多熱、有多冷」的那個數字——溫度計上的讀數。畫面比較像一條刻度：東西變暖數字往上爬，變涼就往下掉。這個詞其他的用法，其實都只是把同一把「多熱多冷」的尺，拿去量不同的對象——你的身體、一場病、甚至一個房間裡的氣氛。

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同家族的字

複數 temperatures

意思相近

heatbody temperaturetensionwarmthfevermoodatmosphere

意思相反

calm

原始詞典資料7 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。

temperaturenoun/ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/

  • 1

    A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.

    • The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
    • The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
  • 2

    An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.

    • You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
    • "Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?"
  • 3

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.

    • In consequence, macroscopic amounts of matter in thermal contact with one another tend to be at the same temperature, a fact of sufficient fundamental importance to merit belated designation as the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.
  • 4

    A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.

  • 5

    The general mood.

    • But it is both easier and more accurate to take the industry's true temperature at small private gatherings like a conference organized by the Ziff Davis publishing company in northern California last week.
    • [Stephen] Miller's words did not seem designed to lower the temperature.
  • 6

    obsoleteThe state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

  • 7

    archaicThe balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

    • Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature, and brings upon us sudden death.
    • […]that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind […]

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