骰子本身與骰子遊戲
這一組就是那顆小立方體，以及以它為主角的遊戲——核心畫面的原地展開。
die, game cube · noun · C2
A small cube used in games, with six sides and a different number of spots on each side, from one to six.
骰子
核心畫面
A good way to hold it: the small six-sided cube you throw. Two things follow from that one object — you cannot control what comes up (so dice stands for chance and risk), and it is a tidy little cube (so dicing food means cutting it into small cubes).
手裡那顆小小的六面立方體，一擲出去就滾走，停下來之前誰也不知道會是幾點。這顆骰子同時給了這個字兩條路。一條是「結果不…更多收起
手裡那顆小小的六面立方體，一擲出去就滾走，停下來之前誰也不知道會是幾點。這顆骰子同時給了這個字兩條路。一條是「結果不由你」——所以講運氣、講冒險、講翻不翻得了身，英文都借骰子來說。另一條路更樸素：它就是一個乾淨的小方塊——所以把紅蘿蔔切成一顆顆小方塊，英文也叫 dice。一個是它的行為，一個是它的形狀。From the word’s history
dice is the plural of die, which came through Old French de from Latin datum 'something given' — the piece that is 'given' or cast in a game. English later took the plural as a singular, which is why people now say a dice as well as a die.
dice 本來是 die 的複數。die 經由古法語 de 來自拉丁語 datum，字面是「被給出的東西」——遊戲裡被拋出去、交出去的那一個。這個「交出去」的味道其實很貼切：骰子一離手，決定權就不在你了。後來英語把複數 dice 也當單數用，所以今天 a dice 和 a die 都聽得到，日常會話裡 dice 更常見。
Wiktionary / Online Etymology Dictionary (die, n. / dice): via Old French de from Latin datum 'that which is given or played'.
Three branches
運氣與冒險
骰子最強的特徵不是形狀，是它一出手你就管不著了。這一支全部從這件事長出來：講機率、講不公平、講孤注一擲。
a throw of the dice · noun · C2
Something you try, hoping it will change a situation, though you cannot be sure it will work, especially a last throw of the dice.
最後一搏
切成小方塊
這一支不走運氣那條路，而是回到骰子的外形：它是一個小立方體。把食物切成那個形狀，就叫 dice。
dice, cut food · verb · C2
To cut food, such as vegetables or meat, into small square pieces.
切丁
原始詞典資料8 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。
Dicename
- 1
A surname.
dicenoun/daɪs/
- 1
Gaming with one or more dice.
- Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga—perhaps too much dice, you know—coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes.
- On the other hand, evolution is not a matter of chance, even in the sense in which a game of dice is a game of chance.
- 2
A die.
- 1980, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, “The Winner Takes It All”, Super Trouper, Polar Music The gods may throw a dice / Their minds as cold as ice
- A white house set like a dice on a rock already venerable with the scars of wind and water.
- 3
cookingfoodlifestyleThat which has been diced.
- Cut onions, carrots and celery into medium dice.
- If your worship is inclined to take a small draught of good wine, though not very cool, I have here a calabash full of the best, and some dices of Tronchon cheese
diceverb/daɪs/
- 1
To play dice.
- Virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times — a week
- For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.
- 2
To cut into small cubes.
- And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan....
- Dice the vegetables and heat in the double boiler with butter, pepper and salt.
- 3
To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。