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Clarification is, first of all, the act of making an idea easier to understand — or the extra explanation that does that. You ask for clarification when a rule, a message, or a plan is fuzzy, and you want it said more . Offices and news reports also “issue a clarification” after people have read something the wrong way. There is an older, more technical sense too: making a liquid clear, as when cooks clarify butter by taking out the cloudy parts. In school and daily life you will almost always meet the “make the meaning clear” sense. The word feels formal and careful, not .
澄清、說明
原始詞典資料5 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。
clarificationnoun/ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
- The clarification of wine.
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The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
- Your ideas deserve clarification.
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An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.
- Let me make just one clarification: did he kiss her, or did she kiss him?
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journalismmediaA small piece of writing supplemental to a previously published text, intended to disambiguate, explain away obscurities, but not contradict or emend the text (as would a correction).
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Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.
- So, just for clarification, you're saying your Chihuahua ate your homework?
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。