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/ˈkjuːmjəleɪtɪv/ · /ˈkjuːmjələtɪv/
Growing little by little as more of something is added or happens over time.
累積的
核心畫面
Picture a pile you add one small thing to every day. No single handful looks like much, but you never take anything off, so after a year the pile is high. 'Cumulative' describes anything that works that way: each addition stays, and the total keeps climbing.
可以想成一堆東西,你每天往上加一點點。單看任何一次都不覺得多,但因為從來沒有拿走過,一年後那堆就很高了。cumula…更多收起
可以想成一堆東西,你每天往上加一點點。單看任何一次都不覺得多,但因為從來沒有拿走過,一年後那堆就很高了。cumulative 描述的就是這種運作方式:每一次加上去的都留著,總量只會往上爬。和它同一家的字是 accumulate(累積)。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。
cumulativeadj/ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv/
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Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.
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That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
- As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original.
- The argument […] is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThat is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
- cumulative conjunctions like and, both…and and as well as
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That tends to accumulate.
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businessfinanceHaving priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid.
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law(of evidence, witnesses, etc.) Intended to illustrate an argument that has already been demonstrated excessively.
- The state wants to bring in ten blood-spatter experts to testify. Your Honor, that is cumulative testimony.
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。