喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture a small compartment — one little walled-off space that is also a complete basic unit on its own. The word started with the monk's tiny room and the honeycomb's little chamber, and biology borrowed it for the smallest self-contained box of life.

可以想成一個「小小的、有牆圍起來的隔間」——既是一格獨立的小空間，本身又是一個完整的基本單位。這個字最早講的就是修道…更多收起可以想成一個「小小的、有牆圍起來的隔間」——既是一格獨立的小空間，本身又是一個完整的基本單位。這個字最早講的就是修道院的小房間、蜂巢的小格子那種畫面；後來生物學借去指「生命最小的、自成一格的小盒子」。所有意思都圍著「一個有界線的小格」在轉。

原始詞典資料25 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。

cellnoun詞源 1/sɛl/

  • 1

    A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

    • So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].
    • For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.
  • 2

    historicalA small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

  • 3

    A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

    • Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
    • A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.
  • 4

    A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

    • The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
  • 5

    Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

  • 6

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesAny of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

    • Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…].
  • 7

    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesThe discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

  • 8

    obsoleteSpecifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

    • How soft the music of those village bells / […] With easy force it opens all the cells / Where mem'ry slept.
    • [W]e shall feel still more contempt for the order of men, who cultivated their faculties, only to enable them to consolidate their power, by leading the ignorant astray; making the learning they concentrated in their cells, a more polished instrument of oppression.
另外 15 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A section or compartment of a larger structure.

  • 10

    obsoleteliteraryAny small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

    • Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell [translating caveau] wherein thou art placed[…].
    • Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell[…].
  • 11

    A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

    • This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
  • 12

    biologynatural-sciencesThe basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.

    • An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.
    • In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.
  • 13

    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

    • There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
  • 14

    cellular-automatacomputingengineeringThe minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

    • The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
    • Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors.
  • 15

    card-gamesgamesIn FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

  • 16

    A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

    • Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
    • Salarian intelligence field agents are grouped into an organization called the Special Tasks Group. STG operators work in independent cells, performing dangerous missions such as counter-terrorism, infiltration, reconnaissance, assassination, and sabotage.
  • 17

    communicationcommunicationsA short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.

    • Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
  • 18

    communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringA region of radio reception, or the group of devices that uses it, that is a part of a larger radio network.

    • I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
  • 19

    geometrymathematicssciencesA three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

  • 20

    mathematicssciencesstatisticsThe unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

  • 21

    architectureThe space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

  • 22

    architectureA cella.

  • 23

    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAn area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

cellverb詞源 1/sɛl/

  • 1

    To place or enclose in a cell.

    • Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found

cellnoun詞源 2/sɛl/

  • 1

    informalA cellular phone.

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。