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/əˈdʒeɪsənt/
next to something, especially a room, building, or piece of land.
相鄰的;毗鄰的
核心畫面
Picture two rooms on a plan sharing a wall, or two plots of land meeting along a fence line. Adjacent is that touching-at-the-edge relationship: not just close by, but right up against, with nothing in between.
可以想成:平面圖上兩個房間共用一道牆,或是兩塊地沿著同一條圍籬相接。adjacent 講的就是這種「邊靠著邊」的關係…更多收起
可以想成:平面圖上兩個房間共用一道牆,或是兩塊地沿著同一條圍籬相接。adjacent 講的就是這種「邊靠著邊」的關係——不只是在附近,而是緊挨著,中間沒有別的東西。原始詞典資料6 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。
adjacentadj/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
- 1
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
- Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacent.
- 2
Just before, after, or facing.
- The picture is on the adjacent page.
- 3
Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
- It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.
- First of all, she's probably the most popular politics-adjacent figure in the country. She's not a politician. She's never run for anything, but I have said for a long time – I think we all agree – if she did ever want to run for something, she would be right at the front of the line.
adjacentnoun/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
- 1
Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
- Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.
- Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…]
adjacentprep/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
- 1
Next to; beside.
- The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
- A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
- 2
Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
- While Amazon has increasingly become a one-stop shop for some people, we’re also seeing a large proliferation of online companies looking to connect with users wherever they happen to be spending the most time, whether that’s on a social media platform, or on a site that caters to interests adjacent to the businesses’s own — and most importantly not necessarily on the company’s own web properties.
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。