核心畫面

The moment something that was open stops being open — the shutters come down, the barrier goes across, the chapter ends. Sometimes what closes is a building, sometimes a road, sometimes a stretch of your own life that you finally get to stop carrying.

可以想成:本來開著的東西關上了的那一刻——鐵門拉下、路口擺上柵欄、一段故事收尾。關的可以是一棟建築、一條路,也可以是更多收起可以想成:本來開著的東西關上了的那一刻——鐵門拉下、路口擺上柵欄、一段故事收尾。關的可以是一棟建築、一條路,也可以是自己心裡一段終於能放下的事。中文會隨著關的是什麼而換詞:關閉、封閉、了結。

From the picture

把一件事收尾

關上的不再是空間而是一段經歷:事情有了交代,你可以把那一頁翻過去。

sense of closure · noun · B2

The ending of something, or the calm feeling of having finally settled it.

了結;解脫感

Also in this word

permanent closing · noun · B2

when a factory, school, hospital, shop, or similar place has to close and stop working for good.

關閉;停業

road closure · noun · B1

The blocking off of a road or lane so that no one can use it for a time.

封閉;封路

原始詞典資料15 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。

closurenoun/ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

  • 2

    A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.

    • to find emotional closure
    • In crowded rooms, and I keep lookin' for closeness / Maybe I'll never get closure
  • 3

    A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.

  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsAn abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.

    • Instead, make f and g input arguments, and use the closure around the inner function so that this code works with any two functions that you provide. Closures are important features that work amazingly well with higher-order functions; I’ll review them in section 4.4.
  • 5

    mathematicssciencesThe smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.

  • 6

    mathematicssciencestopologyThe smallest closed set which contains the given set.

    • 7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.
  • 7

    The act of shutting; a closing.

    • the closure of a door, or of a chink
  • 8

    The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.

    • The closure of Hammersmith Bridge means road traffic has to use Chiswick and Putney Bridges instead.
    • Those who have advocated the closure of the G.C. have so far failed to say by which alternative route this North-to-West traffic could be carried.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.

    • 1729 November 28, Alexander Pope, Letter to Jonathan Swift, 1824, The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Volume 17, 2nd Edition, page 284, I admire on this consideration your sending your last to me quite open, without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever, manifesting the utter openness of the writer.
  • 10

    obsoleteThat which encloses or confines; an enclosure.

    • O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.
  • 11

    governmentpoliticsA method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.

  • 12

    human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceThe phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria.

  • 13

    comicsliteraturemediaThe process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.

    • The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels.
  • 14

    The element of packaging that closes a container.

closureverb/ˈkləʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    governmentpoliticsTo end the parliamentary debate on (an issue) by closure.

    • At any time they could have stopped discussion by closuring amendments and by closuring the clause under discussion.

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