喜樂美語
  1. 1擴大機、音箱、放大器；玩樂團的人口語直接說「音箱」或英文 amp。注意「擴大機」是家裡音響那台，吉他那台大家講「音箱」。

    The box that makes an electrical signal stronger, so a quiet sound comes out loud. In music it is the thing between the guitar or the microphone and the speakers; guitarists it to 'amp' and say 'plug into the amp'. Strictly the amplifier only pushes the signal up, and the speaker turns it into sound you can hear, but in ordinary talk people call the whole loud box an amplifier, and that is fine. Beyond music, engineers use the word for anything that boosts a weak signal — a radio amplifier, a signal amplifier in a phone. The verb behind it is 'amplify', and that verb has grown a second, non-electrical life: to amplify a message, a fear, or a small problem means to make it bigger and reach further. 'Social media amplified the .' That figurative use is now very common in the news, and it is worth knowing because it appears far more often than the machine does.

From the word’s history

From amplify + -er.

amplify 加 -er。

Wiktionary

組成amplify + -er 'the thing that does it'. Inside amplify: Latin amplus 'large, wide' + -fy 'to make' — so, 'the thing that makes it bigger'.

同家族的字

  • amplesame Latin amplus 'large' — 'ample space' means plenty of room
  • amplifythe verb it is built from
  • simplifyshares the -fy 'make it so' ending

原始詞典資料5 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。

amplifiernoun/ˈæm.plə.faɪ.ə/

  • 1

    Anything that amplifies, or makes something larger or more intense.

    • The football team is not an extension of Iran’s leaders, but is in fact the opposite, seen as an amplifier for freedom, group expression, modernity.
  • 2

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesAn adverb that adds intensity, such as "really" or "totally".

  • 3

    businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityAn appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.

  • 4

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA portable encasement that houses a large speaker, used to amplify voices and musical instruments at live performances.

  • 5

    A lens that enlarges the field of vision.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。