喜樂美語
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    nA2

    /əˈdæptər/ · /əˈdæptə/

    A small object you use to connect two pieces of electrical equipment that do not fit together, or to plug two things into the same power supply.

    轉接頭

    複數 adapters

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Two things that were never made to fit — a foreign plug and a local socket — and a small piece in between that lets them meet anyway. It changes nothing about either side; it just sits in the gap and makes the connection possible.

可以想成：兩樣本來就不相容的東西——國外的插頭和台灣的插座——中間放一個小零件，它們就接得起來了。它不改造任何一邊，…更多收起可以想成：兩樣本來就不相容的東西——國外的插頭和台灣的插座——中間放一個小零件，它們就接得起來了。它不改造任何一邊，只是卡在中間讓連接成立。出國旅行的萬用轉接頭、筆電上的 USB 轉接器，都是這個畫面。

原始詞典資料7 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。

adapternoun/əˈdæptə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.

    • He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.
  • 2

    One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.

    • The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.
  • 3

    A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.

    • He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power.
    • Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.
  • 4

    A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.

    • The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.
  • 5

    A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.

    • We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house.
  • 6

    A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.

    • I lost my cellphone's adapter so I couldn't recharge it.
  • 7

    A collection of low-rank matrices which, when added to a base model, produces a fine-tuned model; a LoRA.

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。