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An enclosure has two common uses. In a letter or email, an enclosure is something extra you send along with it, like a document, a photo, or a form - in a business letter you might see 'Enclosure: contract' at the bottom. The other meaning is an area with a fence, wall, or barrier around it, so nothing can get in or out - like the lion enclosure at a zoo, or a small enclosure for keeping chickens.
附件(書信裡附加的東西);圍欄、圍場
組成Enclosure comes from the verb 'enclose' - to close something inside. The '-ure' ending turns it into a thing or a result.
同家族的字
- encloseenclosure is what you get when you enclose something - the attachment, or the fenced-in space
原始詞典資料7 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。
enclosurenoun/ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/
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Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
- There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.
- Mr Carlyle cut open the envelope, glanced at the enclosure, and in spite of his disappointment could not restrain a chuckle.
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The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
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An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.
- The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.
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The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
- The enclosure of public land is against the law.
- The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.
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The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
- Copyright, from day one, was designed to be both an impediment and an incentive, a mechanism of enclosure (one that prevented the unlicensed printing of texts, thereby limiting access) and a catalyst of sorts, a structure to stimulate the production of literary goods by rewarding writers and publishers for their labor.
- The commons evokes resistance to “enclosure” in all its forms, whether in its early proto-capitalist form of fencing in commonly shared land, or in its contemporary forms of marshalling judicial restraints such as “patent” and “intellectual property” to police the ownership of ideas.
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The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure.
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lifestylereligionThe area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
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。