To configure something is to arrange it — especially a computer, a phone, a printer, or a program — so that it works with other equipment and with the settings you need. You choose the options, you connect the parts, you tell the machine how to behave. In tech talk this is an everyday verb: configure the router, configure your email, configure the display.

To configure somethingconfigure某樣東西， is to arrange it指的是去設定它—— especially a computer, a phone, a printer, or a program特別是電腦、手機、印表機，或程式—— so that it works with other equipment and with the settings you need好讓它能配合其他設備，也符合你需要的設定。You choose the options你選擇選項， you connect the parts連接各個零件， you tell the machine how to behave告訴機器該怎麼運作。In tech talk this is an everyday verb在科技用語裡這是個常見動詞： configure the router, configure your email, configure the display像configure the router（設定路由器）、configure your email（設定信箱）、configure the display（設定顯示畫面）。

Though actually, the older, wider sense is simply to shape or arrange the parts of a thing so they fit a purpose, not only computers. People still stretch it that way about a system, a room, or a plan, but the computer meaning is the one you will meet most.

Though actually不過其實， the older, wider sense is simply to shape or arrange the parts of a thing so they fit a purpose比較舊、比較廣的意思，只是把一樣東西的各個部分安排成符合某個用途， not only computers不只限於電腦。People still stretch it that way about a system, a room, or a plan人們還是會這樣延伸使用，講一個系統、一個房間，或一個計畫， but the computer meaning is the one you will meet most但你最常遇到的還是電腦這個意思。

It is a little more formal than set up, which is the easy phrase for the same job.

than set up比起set up， it is a little more formal這個字正式一點， which is the easy phrase for the same jobset up是做同樣事情比較輕鬆的說法。