核心畫面
You can picture taking many separate pieces — bricks, beams, planks, words, ideas — and joining them step by step into one larger thing that stands up on its own. 'Construction' is both that act of putting-together and the thing it produces.
可以想成把一堆散落的零件（磚塊、鋼樑、木板，甚至是字詞、想法）一塊一塊接起來，慢慢搭成一個能立得住、有結構的整體。c…更多收起
可以想成把一堆散落的零件（磚塊、鋼樑、木板，甚至是字詞、想法）一塊一塊接起來，慢慢搭成一個能立得住、有結構的整體。construction 既指這個「拼接起來」的動作，也指拼出來的成品；蓋房子是它，造句、建立一套理論也是它。原始詞典資料10 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。
constructionnoun/kənˈstɹʌkʃən/
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The process of constructing.
- Construction is underway on the new bridge.
- 89.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States.
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Anything that has been constructed.
- The engineer marvelled at his construction.
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The trade of building structures.
- He had worked in construction all his life.
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A building, model or some other structure.
- The office was a construction of steel and glass.
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artartsA (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
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The manner in which something is built.
- A thing of simple construction.
- Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
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The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.
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geometrymathematicssciencesA geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
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。