- 1nC1
/dɪsˈrʌpʃən/
a situation in which something cannot continue in its usual way because of a problem.
中斷;擾亂
複數 disruptions
核心畫面
Picture the departure board at an airport after a storm: rows of delayed and cancelled, people sitting on their suitcases. Nothing has been destroyed, but the normal running of things has stopped. Disruption is the name for that state — the gap between how things should be going and how they are actually going.
可以想成:暴風雨過後機場的班次看板,一整排 delayed 和 cancelled,旅客坐在行李箱上等。沒有東西被毀…更多收起
可以想成:暴風雨過後機場的班次看板,一整排 delayed 和 cancelled,旅客坐在行李箱上等。沒有東西被毀掉,只是原本該順順運轉的一切停住了。disruption 就是替這個狀態取的名字——「本來該怎麼跑」和「現在實際怎麼跑」之間的那個落差。原始詞典資料3 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。
disruptionnoun/dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/
- 1
An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
- The network created a disruption in the show when they broke in with a newscast.
- In the May 12 memo, Meta said it had previously allowed open discussion of abortion at work but later recognized that it had led to “significant disruptions in the workplace given unique legal complexities and the number of people affected by the issue.”
- 2
A continuing act of disorder.
- There was great disruption in the classroom when the teacher left.
- 3
A breaking or bursting apart; a breach.
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。