- 1nC1
/dʊˈreɪʃən/ · /djʊˈreɪʃən/
The length of time that something lasts or continues.
持續時間；期間
複數 durations
核心畫面
Picture a line drawn from the moment something starts to the moment it stops — the film, the flight, the meeting, the storm. Duration is the length of that line. It does not say when the thing happened or how good it was; it only measures how long it went on.
可以想成：從一件事開始的那一刻，畫一條線到它結束的那一刻——電影、航程、會議、颱風都可以。duration 量的就是…更多收起
可以想成：從一件事開始的那一刻，畫一條線到它結束的那一刻——電影、航程、會議、颱風都可以。duration 量的就是這條線有多長。它不管事情什麼時候發生、好不好，只講「持續了多久」。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。
durationnoun/dʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- 1
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
- The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.
- She was moaning for the entire duration of the advert break.
- 2
The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
- Rationing will last at least for the duration.
- 3
businessfinanceA measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
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。