喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a bunch of grapes: several things of the same kind, packed tight into one spot, with empty space all around them. Two things matter in that picture — they are alike, and they are close. Everything the word covers is some version of that little knot.

可以想成：一串葡萄——好幾個同類的東西擠在同一個點上，四周留著空白。這個畫面有兩個重點：它們是同一類的，而且靠得很近…更多收起可以想成：一串葡萄——好幾個同類的東西擠在同一個點上，四周留著空白。這個畫面有兩個重點：它們是同一類的，而且靠得很近。這個字的每個用法，都是這一小團的某一種版本。

From the picture

聚成一團的動作

把那一團拍成動作：原本散著的人或東西移動到一起，形成剛才那個緊密的小團。

gather together · verb · B2

If people or things cluster somewhere, they come together and form a small group very close together in that place.

聚集；圍成一小群

Also in this word

cluster of things · noun · B1

A small group of things of the same kind, close together in one place.

一叢；一簇

small crowd · noun · B1

A small group of people standing or sitting very close together in one place.

一小群（人）

disk cluster · noun · C1

In computing, a group of small storage spaces on a disk that the computer uses together when it saves part of a file.

磁簇；叢集

原始詞典資料17 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。

clusternoun/ˈklʌstə/

  • 1

    A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

    • a cluster of islands
    • A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.
  • 2

    astronomynatural-sciencesA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

    • The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.
    • My fellow biotic: You have been selected to receive this transmission because of our shared plight. Few understand us, fewer tolerate us. We must stand together. We must build our own new world. Come. Join us in the Hawking Eta cluster. Only as one body can we right the wrongs done to our kind.
  • 3

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

    • A computer cluster is a collection of two or more computers used to execute a given problem or section. Typically, in a computer cluster, the interconnection network tying the computers together is a local area network (LAN). […] The computers in the cluster communicate among themselves and among the shared memory.
  • 5

    computingengineeringmathematicsA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

  • 6

    epidemiologymedicinesciencesA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

    • A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.
  • 7

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

    • examples of clusters would include in accordance with, so far, and the results of
  • 8

    governmentmilitarypoliticsA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    governmentmilitarypoliticsA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

  • 10

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

  • 11

    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

    • The word scrub begins with a cluster of three consonants.
  • 12

    mathematicssciencesstatisticsA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

  • 13

    A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.

    • VVe lou'd him, / But like Beaſts / And Covvardly Nobles, / Gaue vvay vnto your Cluſters, vvho did hoote / Him out o' th' Citty.
    • [T]hey all alight, and then they go to the ſecond gate, and if peraduenture they cannot get in, they ſit there vvithout, as Bees doe in the Sunne, all in a cluſter.

clusterverb/ˈklʌstə/

  • 1

    To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun sense 1).

    • The consciousness of such an action will give her features a nobler life on this illustrious day, than all the jewels that can hang in her hair or can be clustered in her bosom.
    • Not less the bee would range her cells, / The furzy prickle fire the dells, / The foxglove cluster dappled bells.
  • 2

    To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters.

    • The sea is clustered with islands.
  • 3

    To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather.

    • The children clustered around the puppy.
    • [T]he fruite cluſtereth togyther lyke to ſmal grapes, which in the beginning is greene, and afterwarde when it is ripe, al blacke.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。