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A noun: the act of giving more detail, or the extra detail itself. If a teacher asks for elaboration, they want reasons, examples, steps — not a one-line answer. You can speak of her elaboration of the plan, meaning the longer, fuller telling.
A noun: the act of giving more detail, or the extra detail itself這是個名詞：指提供更多細節的動作，或那些額外的細節本身。If a teacher asks for elaboration如果老師要求elaborationthey want reasons, examples, steps — not a one-line answer他們要的是理由、例子、步驟——不是一句話帶過的答案。You can speak of her elaboration of the plan你可以說her elaboration of the plan（她對這個計畫的詳細說明）meaning the longer, fuller telling意思是更長、更完整的講述。
It is a little formal and school-like; in chat you would just say say more or explain. It is built from the verb elaborate.
It is a little formal and school-like它有點正式，帶點學校的感覺in chat you would just say say more or explain在閒聊中你會直接說say more（多說一點）或explain（解釋）。It is built from the verb elaborate它是從動詞elaborate（詳述）變來的。
Though actually, elaborate as an adjective means worked out in a fancy, careful way — an elaborate cake, an elaborate lie — which feels different from this noun, even though they belong together. Elaboration is not the cake; it is the adding of detail. You will meet it in writing class, reports, and polite requests: Could I ask for some elaboration on that point?
Though actually, elaborate as an adjective means worked out in a fancy, careful way不過其實，elaborate當形容詞用時，意思是精心設計、很講究的an elaborate cake, an elaborate lie像an elaborate cake（精緻的蛋糕）、an elaborate lie（精心編造的謊言）which feels different from this noun, even though they belong together感覺跟這個名詞不太一樣，儘管它們其實是同一家族。Elaboration is not the cake; it is the adding of detailElaboration不是那個蛋糕；它是「加上細節」這件事。You will meet it in writing class, reports, and polite requests你會在寫作課、報告，以及禮貌的請求中遇到它: Could I ask for some elaboration on that point?比如：Could I ask for some elaboration on that point?（我可以請你針對這一點多說明一些嗎？）
組成From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.
同家族的字
- elaboratethe verb and adjective this noun is built from
- elaboratelythe adverb from the same stem
原始詞典資料5 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。
elaborationnoun
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The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…].
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The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order
- the elaboration of food into chyme
- the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues
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computingengineeringmathematicsSetting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityThe process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
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human-sciencespsychologysciencesThe level of processing of a message or argument.
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。