喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture a long book sliced into numbered sections, each one a self-contained part of the whole story. From that 'one named section of a larger whole' grows the idea of a distinct stretch of a life or of history; a separate older branch the word for a church or club body.

可以想成一本厚書被切成一段一段、各有編號的章節，每一章都是整個故事裡一個自成段落的部分。chapter 的核心畫面比…更多收起可以想成一本厚書被切成一段一段、各有編號的章節，每一章都是整個故事裡一個自成段落的部分。chapter 的核心畫面比較像「整體當中一個有名字、有起訖的段落」；由此引申出人生或歷史裡一個明確的時期。另有一條較古老的支線，把這個字用在教會或社團的團體上。

原始詞典資料16 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。

chapternoun/ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/

  • 1

    One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.

    • Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.
    • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • 2

    One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.

    • CHAPTER - One of the principal divisions of a book, and, in reference to the Bible, one of the larger sections into which its books are divided. This division, as well as that consisting of verses, was introduced to facilitate reference, and not to indicate any natural or accurate division of the subjects treated in the books.
    • At least thirty-two of the first forty-seven decretal chapters were received by English ecclesiastics,
  • 3

    Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)

  • 4

    Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)

  • 5

    Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)

  • 6

    A section of a social body.

  • 7

    A section of a social body.

    • If the By-Law which admits honorary members is silent upon their rights, they may perhaps be determined by a consideration of which of these classes was intended by the Chapter in admitting them
  • 8

    A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A chapter house

  • 10

    A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.

    • 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the Last, Chapter I, "You know that Mr. Armadale is alive," pursued the doctor, "and you know that he is coming back to England. Why do you continue to wear your widow's dress?" ¶ She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work. ¶ "Because I am of a sanguine disposition, like you. I mean to trust to the chapter of accidents to the very last. Mr. Armadale may die yet, on his way home."
    • […]she determined to go on slowly towards Castra Regis, and trust to the chapter of accidents to pick up the trail again.
  • 11

    obsoleteA location or compartment.

    • In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
  • 12

    CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.

chapterverb/ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/

  • 1

    To divide into chapters.

  • 2

    To put into a chapter.

  • 3

    governmentmilitarypoliticsTo use administrative procedure to remove someone.

    • If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad.
    • "He also wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you don't get your shit ready for this deployment, then he will chapter you out of his freakin' army."
  • 4

    To take to task.

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。