這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 bank (institution) · riverbank
bank
n, v核心畫面
You can picture a counter where money is kept safe and handed back when you need it. The very old picture behind the word is a money-changer's bench in a market: you bring coins, they keep them, you can take them out again. So the heart of this bank is a trusted place that holds something valuable for you and gives it back later.
可以想成一個替你保管錢的櫃檯:你把錢交出去,需要時再拿回來。這個 bank 最古早的畫面,是市集裡兌幣人坐的那張長板…更多收起
可以想成一個替你保管錢的櫃檯:你把錢交出去,需要時再拿回來。這個 bank 最古早的畫面,是市集裡兌幣人坐的那張長板凳——你把硬幣放在那兒,他幫你收著,之後你再領回。所以核心畫面比較像一個「可信任、替你存放貴重東西、之後再還給你」的地方。A second word, same spelling
bank
n, v核心畫面
You can picture a long raised slope of earth running along the side of a river — ground that piles up and tilts. From that one shape come three ideas: a raised, mass of stuff (earth, snow, cloud); things or lined up into such a mass; and the tilt of that slope, which is why a turning plane or a banked road leans to one side.
可以想成河邊那一道長長隆起、又帶點傾斜的土坡——泥土堆高、向一邊斜下去。從這一個形狀長出三件事:一團隆起傾斜的東西(…更多收起
可以想成河邊那一道長長隆起、又帶點傾斜的土坡——泥土堆高、向一邊斜下去。從這一個形狀長出三件事:一團隆起傾斜的東西(土、雪、雲);把東西堆高或排成這樣一團;以及這道坡的「斜」——所以轉彎的飛機、彎道的路面都會向一邊傾。原始詞典資料45 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。
Bankname詞源 1
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A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England.
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rail-transportrailwaystransportA major London Underground station in the City of London, named after the Bank of England and one of the busiest stations on the network (OS grid ref TQ3281)
- Anybody familiar with the London Underground network will know that Bank Tube station is a place to be avoided - if at all possible - on a weekday morning. Located at the very heart of London's 'Square Mile' financial district, some 70,000 people detrain there during the morning peak, to pass through its gatelines and those at the adjoining station at Monument. A further 50,000 passengers squeeze into the station complex at exactly the same time of day, in order to change between the five lines that pass through it.
Bankname詞源 2
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A surname.
banknoun詞源 1/ˈbæŋk/
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An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
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A branch office of such an institution.
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An underwriter or controller of a card game.
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A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
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gamblinggamesThe sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
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slangMoney; profit.
- Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
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In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
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A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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A device used to store coins or currency.
- If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer.
- All of the drum kits are on bank 1.
bankverb詞源 1/ˈbæŋk/
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To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- He banked with Barclays.
- the sort of face you would happily bank with
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To put into a bank (financial institution).
- I’m going to bank the money.
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To store in a bank (storage).
- the procurement, banking or transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissue
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slangTo conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- Johnny banked some coke for me.
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businessfinanceTo provide banking services to.
- They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bank.
banknoun詞源 2/ˈbæŋk/
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geographyhydrologynatural-sciencesAn edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- Tiber trembled underneath her banks.
- On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.
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geographyhydrologynatural-sciencesAn elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
- the banks of Newfoundland
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geographynatural-sciencesA slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationThe incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
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rail-transportrailwaystransportAn incline, a hill.
- This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.
- It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains.
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A mass of clouds.
- The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
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businessminingThe face of the coal at which miners are working.
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businessminingA deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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businessminingThe ground at the top of a shaft.
- Ores are brought to bank.
bankverb詞源 2/ˈbæŋk/
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
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To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
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To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- to bank sand
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To form a bank; to gather in masses.
- […] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall.
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To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
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To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground
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obsoleteTo pass by the banks of.
- Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?
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rail-transportrailwaystransportTo provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
- [...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.
banknoun詞源 3/ˈbæŋk/
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A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- a bank of switches
- a bank of pay phones
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A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
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A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
bankverb詞源 3/ˈbæŋk/
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To arrange or order in a row.
banknoun詞源 4/ˈbæŋk/
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A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
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A bench or seat for judges in court.
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The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
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archaicmediaprintingpublishingA kind of table used by printers.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
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。