喜樂美語
  1. 1制式文字；制式條款（寫程式時台灣也常直接說 boilerplate）。中國大陸較常說「套話」或「模板」。

    Boilerplate is a standard piece of writing, or a ready-made design, that you can use again and again with almost no change — the same paragraphs at the end of every contract, the same “about us” text, the same legal warning. Lawyers, businesses, and computer programmers all use the word. It can sound a little impatient: boilerplate is the stuff nobody really reads, but it has to be there. You can also use it as a describing word: boilerplate language, a boilerplate clause. Though actually, the name is a picture from metalwork. A boiler plate was a thick steel sheet used to build a boiler (first recorded around 1793). Later, newspapers bought ready-made metal printing plates with syndicated articles already on them, so the same text could be printed in many towns. From that came today’s meaning: standard text you .

組成From boiler + plate. First a metal sheet for building a boiler; later, reusable printing plates, then reusable text.

同家族的字

  • boilerthe heating machine that gave the compound its first half
  • platea metal sheet; later a printing plate

原始詞典資料14 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。

boilerplatenoun

  • 1

    A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.

  • 2

    The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).

  • 3

    A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.

  • 4

    journalismmediaSyndicated material.

    • […] they have neither the responsibility nor the inclination to cover the real news of the community and consequently have little editorial expense, relying on handouts and cheap boilerplate materials to fill up the spots where they have no ads.
  • 5

    A copy for the purpose of making other copies.

  • 6

    Standard text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.

    • They put that boilerplate on all the warning labels.
  • 7

    A basic contract that can be modified to make different kinds of contracts.

  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsA standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Formulaic or hackneyed language.

  • 10

    hobbieslifestyleskiingHard, icy snow which may be dangerous for skiing.

boilerplateadj

  • 1

    Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature.

    • The contract contained all the usual boilerplate clauses.
    • It’s an oldie, but not a goodie: one of those boilerplate kids’ movie plots about a workaholic adult who needs a serious jolt to their inner child, complete with a buck-passing, golf-playing idiot boss (Mark Gatiss) and a big presentation that’s due tomorrow.
  • 2

    Formulaic, stereotypical.

  • 3

    aeronauticsaerospacebusinessUsed to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures.

    • A boilerplate spacecraft was used to test the rocket.

boilerplateverb

  • 1

    To store standard text so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse.

    • Any text that you have reason to use more than once can be boilerplated by simply tucking it away in a file (on disk) […]
    • Boilerplated sections should be examined for updating each time they are used.

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。