核心畫面
You can picture the single playing card marked with just one pip in the middle — the ace. In most card games this lone-marked card quietly beats everything else: it is the top card, the one you most want in your hand. From that one picture grow two ideas that run through the whole word: being the very best, and holding a winning advantage.
可以想成一張只印著正中央一個點的撲克牌——A 牌。看起來最簡單,卻在多數牌局裡壓過所有牌,是你手裡最想要的那張「最強…更多收起
可以想成一張只印著正中央一個點的撲克牌——A 牌。看起來最簡單,卻在多數牌局裡壓過所有牌,是你手裡最想要的那張「最強的牌」。從這個畫面長出兩條線貫穿整個字:一是「頂尖、最厲害」,二是「握著能贏的本錢」。原始詞典資料39 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
ACEname/eɪs/
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A proprietary data compression archive file format.
ACEnoun/eɪs/
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broadcastingfilmmediaA member of American Cinema Editors
Acename
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A male given name.
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A common nickname suggesting skill, particularly among airplane pilots.
acenoun詞源 1/ˈeɪ̯s/
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card-gamesgamesA playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
- You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
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dicegamesA die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
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The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
- Ace in the corner.
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slangA dollar bill.
- […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
- If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve.
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A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
- He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
- I'LL not wag an ace farther: The whole World ſhall not bribe me to it;
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesA serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
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ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe best pitcher on the team.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
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obsoletedatedball-gamesbaseballgamesA run.
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golfhobbieslifestyleA hole in one.
- "Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.
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An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent.
- an ace detective
- ‘Weston, the ace of theatrical agents.’
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A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
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A perfect score on a school exam.
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Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
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obsoletenatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA quark.
aceverb詞源 1/ˈeɪ̯s/
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informalTo pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
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informalTo defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.
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hobbieslifestylesportsTo win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.
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golfhobbieslifestyleTo make an ace (hole in one).
aceadj詞源 1/ˈeɪ̯s/
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slangExcellent.
aceadj詞源 2/ˈeɪ̯s/
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slangAsexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.
- "Some people who identify as ace fall under the GLBT umbrella while many others do not. Members of the queer movement have reached out to asexuals to include them in their community. The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual)."
- “I was 14 when I first realized I had no interest in sex,” Jed Strohm, a happily satisfied, romantic asexual from upstate New York, said. “I identified as ace (asexual) and the group leader said I was too attractive.”
acenoun詞源 2/ˈeɪ̯s/
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slangA person who is asexual.
- Asexuals are programmed differently, like anybody else on the LGBTQXYZ spectrum, but difference is cool! Difference is perhaps the best part of being queer. Own it, aces!
- Negativity toward asexuality can make emerging aces fear that something is wrong with them.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- American Council on Education
- Advanced Composition Explorer
- American Cinema Editors
- Attempto Controlled English
- angiotensin converting enzyme
- air combat element
- aviation combat element
- analysis and control element
- arbitrary code execution
- access control entry
- ASCII-compatible encoding
- adverse childhood experience
- accumulated cyclone energy
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。