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核心畫面

Picture separate parts being joined until they stand up as one thing — bricks into a wall, words into a sentence, scattered facts into an idea you can hold. The word always keeps that sense of assembly: nothing appears whole, it is put together piece by piece. The noun uses name what you end up with once the assembling is done.

可以想成：一塊塊分開的東西被接起來，最後立成一個整體——磚頭變成牆、字詞變成句子、零散的資訊變成一個你握得住的想法。…更多收起可以想成：一塊塊分開的東西被接起來，最後立成一個整體——磚頭變成牆、字詞變成句子、零散的資訊變成一個你握得住的想法。這個字始終帶著「組裝」的意味：東西不是憑空出現的，是一片一片拼上去的。名詞的用法則是在說組裝完成之後留下的那個成品。

From the picture

把想法和語句組起來

拼裝的材料從磚頭換成字詞和概念：一句話、一個計畫、一套論證，同樣是一塊一塊接起來才站得住。

construct (a sentence, idea) · verb · B2

to make something like a sentence, a plan, or an idea by putting words or ideas together.

組成；建構

組裝完成後的成品

從動作變成結果：把拼裝好的那個東西本身叫出來——可能是摸得到的構造物，也可能是腦中拼出來的一個概念。

a construction; built thing · noun · C1

something that has been built or made out of parts.

構造物；組成的成品

Also in this word

build; construct · verb · B1

to build something big, such as a bridge, a road, or a building.

建造；興建

construct (a diagram) · verb · B2

to draw a shape in maths carefully, using tools like a ruler and a compass.

作圖；畫出

原始詞典資料6 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。

constructnoun/ˈkɒn.stɹʌkt/

  • 1

    Something constructed from parts.

    • The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.
    • Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.
  • 2

    A concept or model.

    • Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.
  • 3

    biologygeneticsmedicineA segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.

constructverb/kənˈstɹʌkt/

  • 1

    To build or form (something) by assembling parts.

    • We constructed the radio from spares.
    • A wall constructed of random stones.
  • 2

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsTo build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.

    • A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.
    • The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.
  • 3

    geometrymathematicssciencesTo draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.

    • Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.
    • The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure.

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。