喜樂美語
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    /ˈkælkjəleɪtər/ · /ˈkælkjəleɪtə/

    a small electronic machine that can add, multiply, and do other number work for you.

    計算機

    複數 calculators

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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核心畫面

Picture the small machine with a and a one-line screen that does the number work for you — you press the numbers, it gives the answer. Calculator is the thing that does the calculating, whether it sits in your bag or lives as an app on your phone.

可以想成：一台有按鍵和一行小螢幕的機器，數字按進去，答案就跳出來，算的部分由它負責。calculator 就是「負責…更多收起可以想成：一台有按鍵和一行小螢幕的機器，數字按進去，答案就跳出來，算的部分由它負責。calculator 就是「負責計算的那個東西」，實體的、放在書包裡的算，手機上的那個 app 也算。台灣常說的「工程計算機」，英文是 a scientific calculator。

原始詞典資料4 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。

calculatornoun/ˈkæl.kjə.leɪ.tə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.

    • electronic calculator;   pocket calculator
    • The calculator on a bookkeeper's desk in the 1950s was an adding machine with mechanical guts.
  • 2

    historicalA person who performs mathematical calculation.

    • During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.
    • First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.
  • 3

    A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).

    • Near-synonyms: schemer, plotter; manipulator
    • He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.
  • 4

    obsoleteA set of mathematical tables.

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。