喜樂美語
  1. 1n/əˈluːmənəm/ · /ˌæləˈmɪniəm/鋁

    A silver-white metal that is very light and does not rust, used to make things like cans, cooking pans, window frames, and bicycle parts. It is one of the chemical elements, and its symbol is Al.

    aluminium 就是中文的「鋁」：一種銀白色、很輕、又不會生鏽的金屬。它會出現在這麼多東西上——飲料罐、鋁箔紙、鍋子、窗框、腳踏車車架——都是因為這兩個特點：夠輕又耐用。要注意它是材料，所以不可數：說 made of aluminium，不加 a、也不加 s（有複數的是 cans 那些容器，不是金屬本身）。英式英文寫 aluminium，美式英文寫 aluminum，少一個 i，唸法也跟著不一樣。

    示範例句 · Example

    Leo put all the aluminium cans in the blue box for recycling.

    中文翻譯里歐把所有的鋁罐放進藍色的箱子裡回收。

    常見搭配

    • aluminium foil

      鋁箔紙

      very thin aluminium in a sheet, used to wrap or cover food

      Cover the chicken with aluminium foil so it stays soft.

    • an aluminium can

      鋁罐

      a drink container made of aluminium

      We saved a whole bag of aluminium cans for the school recycling day.

    • be made of aluminium

      用鋁做的、鋁製的

      to have aluminium as the material something is built from

      The ladder is made of aluminium, so one person can carry it.

    • recycle aluminium

      回收鋁

      to collect used aluminium and make it into new things

      It takes much less energy to recycle aluminium than to make new metal.

    • an aluminium frame

      鋁製框架、鋁製車架

      the outside structure of a window, door, or bicycle, built from aluminium

      Coated aluminium frames come in many different colours.

    • aluminium alloy

      鋁合金

      a metal made by mixing aluminium with a small amount of another metal, to make it stronger

      The wings of the plane are built from aluminium alloy.

core核心畫面

You can think of it as the lightweight silver metal: pick up a drinks can, a camping pot, a window frame, a bicycle frame — they feel almost too light for something that looks like metal, and they never go rusty-orange the way iron does. That combination — silver-looking, surprisingly light, doesn't rust — is the whole picture.

「輕得不像金屬的銀白色金屬」。你手上拿一個空的鋁罐、露營用的鍋子、窗框、腳踏車車架——看起來明明是金屬，掂起來卻輕得有點違和；而且放久了也不會像鐵那樣長出橘紅色的鏽。銀白、很輕、不生鏽，這三件事湊在一起就是這個字的全部畫面。它是元素週期表上的一個元素（符號 Al），所以它不是某種合成材料，而是自然界本來就有的一種基本物質。

原始詞典資料3 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。

aluminiumnoun/ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.i.əm/

  • 1

    A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.

    • There are plenty of reasons, Australians may reason, why our nation might be exempted from the threatened next round of Trumpian tariffs, on stuff like aluminium and pharmaceuticals.
  • 2

    A single atom of this element.

  • 3

    slangAircraft or other machinery made partially or wholly of aluminium.

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