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/ˌdaɪəɡˈnoʊs/ · /ˈdaɪəɡnəʊz/
to find out what illness someone has, or what is wrong with a machine or system, after careful checks.
診斷；找出原因
過去式 diagnosed過去分詞 diagnosed-ing diagnosing三單 diagnoses
核心畫面
Symptoms are visible but the cause is not. Someone runs the checks, rules things out, and names what is actually wrong. The word is about arriving at the name — not about treating it afterwards.
可以想成：症狀看得到，原因看不到。有人做了檢查、一項項排除，最後把「真正出問題的是什麼」講出名字來。這個字講的是「得…更多收起
可以想成：症狀看得到，原因看不到。有人做了檢查、一項項排除，最後把「真正出問題的是什麼」講出名字來。這個字講的是「得出那個名稱」的過程，不包括之後怎麼治。原本是醫療用語，後來機器和系統故障也照用。原始詞典資料2 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。
diagnoseverb/ˈdʌɪ.əɡˌnəʊz/
- 1
medicinesciencesTo determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
- 2
To determine the cause of a problem.
- But in the early days of the scheme the new machines created some problems for the fitters, who found them over-complex and their faults hard to diagnose after many years' experience of small, simple steam locomotives.
- Mechanics use this extremely portable tool to diagnose engine faults, clear fault codes, and export data.
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。