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Happening at the same time as something else, running in parallel instead of one after another. You'll often hear it in formal or legal talk — for example, if someone is 'serving two sentences concurrently', it means the two punishments happen together, not one after the other.
同時(進行)
組成con- (together) + current (flowing, happening now) + -ly
同家族的字
- concurrentthe adjective form — happening at the same time
- currentshares the root meaning 'flowing' or 'happening now'
原始詞典資料1 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。
concurrentlyadv
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In a concurrent manner; at the same time.
- For the next four years Mr. Johnson continued building 2-4-0 express passenger engines, thus continuing the Kirtley practice, but from 1882 onwards he built all his express engines with the 4-4-0 or the 4-2-2 wheel arrangement, the two types being put in service concurrently between the years of 1887 and 1900.
- Concurrently with the St. Pancras-Bedford service, diesel trains have now taken over that between Kentish Town and Barking, on an even-interval basis at half-hourly intervals.
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。