核心畫面
You can picture episode as one chunk cut out of a longer flow — a single stretch of time when something distinct happens, with a clear start and end, before the larger story moves on. Hold that 'one piece of a longer thing' picture and both uses follow: a memorable patch of your life, and one numbered piece of a TV series.
可以把 episode 想成「從一條長河裡切下來的一段」——一段有頭有尾、發生了某件特別的事的時間，過了它，更大的故…更多收起
可以把 episode 想成「從一條長河裡切下來的一段」——一段有頭有尾、發生了某件特別的事的時間，過了它，更大的故事再繼續往下走。抓住「長故事裡的一小段」這個畫面，兩種用法就都接得上：人生中一段讓你記得的經歷，以及影集裡編了號的其中一集。原始詞典資料2 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。
episodenoun/ˈɛp.ɪ.səʊd/
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A discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.
- It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.
- The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.
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broadcastingfilmmediaA bounded narrative unit within a television series, constituting a single installment that is structurally discrete yet interrelated with the series as a whole.
- I can't wait till next week’s episode.
- We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
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。