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    /kəˈnæl/

    A long, narrow path of water that people dig into the ground, so boats can travel or water can reach a place.

    運河

    複數 canals

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核心畫面

Picture a long, straight channel of water that people have dug into the land — not a natural river that wanders, but a made with steady banks, so boats can travel through or water can be carried to where it is needed.

可以想成一條又長又直、人挖出來的水道：不是自然彎彎曲曲的河，而是人工開鑿、兩岸整齊的水路，好讓船通行，或把水引到需要…更多收起可以想成一條又長又直、人挖出來的水道：不是自然彎彎曲曲的河，而是人工開鑿、兩岸整齊的水路，好讓船通行，或把水引到需要的地方。

From the word’s history

From Latin canalis 'pipe, channel, groove', from canna 'reed' — a hollow reed was an early natural pipe for carrying water. That picture of a hollow channel guiding water straight through is exactly the modern core.

來自拉丁文 canalis「管子、水道、溝槽」，源自 canna「蘆葦」——中空的蘆葦是早期天然的水管。那個「中空的通道把水直直引過去」的畫面，正好就是今天的核心。

etymonline.com/word/canal; Wiktionary 'canalis' (from canna 'reed')

原始詞典資料6 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。

Canalname

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    A surname.

canalnoun/kəˈnæl/

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    An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

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    anatomybiologybotanyA tubular channel within the body or within a plant.

    • The fossilised jaw of T. trusleri has a huge canal running through it and that’s believed to have carried all the nerve and related tissue needed for the sense of electroception.
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    astronomynatural-sciencesOne of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals

canalverb/kəˈnæl/

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    To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage

    • In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded.
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    To travel along a canal by boat

    • Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.

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。