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Two related meanings. (1) A tool that measures air pressure, used to guess whether the weather will soon turn sunny or rainy. (2) Something that shows how a bigger situation is going, like a sign or a hint. For example, people say 'prices are a barometer of the economy,' meaning that if you watch prices, you can tell how the economy (the money situation of a country) is doing.
(1) 氣壓計 (2) (比喻)指標、風向球
組成baro- (weight or pressure, from Greek) + meter (a thing that measures)
同家族的字
- thermometerboth end in -meter, a tool that measures something
原始詞典資料2 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。
barometernoun/bəˈɹɒm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
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An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
- Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
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Anything used as a gauge or indicator.
- "An election is not necessarily an accurate barometer of public opinion. There are other ways in which it makes itself felt, through the press, the forum, discussion, and through every other type of communication."
- The weakest members of society become social barometers or canaries in a coal mine.
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。