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    Causal describes a relationship where one thing directly makes another thing happen - a cause-and-effect link. Scientists are careful about this word: just because two things happen together (like ice cream sales and both going up in summer) doesn't mean one causes the other - that would need a causal link.

    因果關係的

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成cause + -al (an adjective suffix)

同家族的字

  • causethe root word inside causal
  • becauseliterally built from 'by' + 'cause'

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。

causaladj/ˈkɔːzəl/

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    Of, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing.

    • There is no causal relationship between eating carrots and seeing in the dark.
    • No matter how often B follows A, and no matter how initially obvious the causality of the connection seems, the hypothesis that A causes B can be overturned by an over-arching theory which shows the two as distinct effects of a common underlying causal process.

causalnoun/ˈkɔːzəl/

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    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA word (such as because) that expresses a reason or a cause.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。