媒體報導
把「蓋住一個範圍」用到新聞上:媒體用報導去「罩住」一個事件,蓋得越多、越廣,coverage 就越多。
news reporting · noun · C1
The reporting of a subject or event on TV, on radio, or in newspapers.
報導
Picture a blanket spread over an area: how much it reaches and covers. 'Coverage' is the noun for 'how much ground something covers' — and different things do the covering: a report covers a topic, insurance covers a risk, a signal covers a region.
Simply 'cover' + the noun suffix '-age' (which forms nouns of amount/extent, as in 'mileage', 'acreage'). So 'coverage' literally = the amount/extent of covering.
其實就是 cover(覆蓋)加上名詞字尾 -age;-age 常表示「數量/範圍」(如 mileage 里程、acreage 面積)。所以 coverage 字面可以想成「覆蓋的量、覆蓋的範圍」——核心畫面正好對得上:蓋到多大一片。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), s.v. 'coverage' / '-age'
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媒體報導
把「蓋住一個範圍」用到新聞上:媒體用報導去「罩住」一個事件,蓋得越多、越廣,coverage 就越多。
news reporting · noun · C1
The reporting of a subject or event on TV, on radio, or in newspapers.
報導
保險承保
保險也像一張保護毯:它「罩住」哪些風險、罩到多大金額,就是它的 coverage——蓋得到的事故才賠。
insurance protection · noun · C1
The protection an insurance company gives, paying you money if you are hurt or something is lost.
保險範圍 / 承保
subject range · noun · C1
The range of subjects and facts that a book, programme, or class includes.
涵蓋範圍
signal reach · noun · C1
How much an area or group of things is reached or covered by something, like a phone signal.
涵蓋/收訊範圍
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。
coveragenoun/ˈkʌv.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/
An amount by which something or someone is covered.
journalismmediaThe amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media or other media.
biologygeneticsmedicineThe average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringThe area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringThe signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
hobbieslifestylesportsDefense.
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。