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核心畫面

Picture someone who does not know the answer yet, setting something up to find out: change one thing, watch what happens. That is the whole word — trying in order to learn, with the result genuinely open. A lab bench is only the tidiest version of it.

可以想成：有人還不知道答案，於是動手設計一個試法——改動一個地方，看看會發生什麼。整個字就是這件事：為了弄清楚而去試…更多收起可以想成：有人還不知道答案，於是動手設計一個試法——改動一個地方，看看會發生什麼。整個字就是這件事：為了弄清楚而去試，而且結果真的還沒定。實驗室的檯子只是這件事最整齊的一種版本，換成廚房、教室或人生也一樣成立。

From the picture

試試看新做法

把實驗室的做法搬到日常：一樣是先不知道結果、動手試了才知道，只是場地換成廚房、教室或人生。

try different methods · verb · B1

To try out different ideas, methods, or materials to see how good or useful they are.

嘗試；試驗

Also in this word

scientific test · noun · B1

A scientific test done to learn how something works, or to check if an idea is true.

實驗

run an experiment · verb · B1

To do a scientific test in order to learn something or find out if an idea is true.

做實驗

原始詞典資料6 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。

experimentnoun/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/

  • 1

    A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.

    • conduct an experiment
    • carry out some experiments
  • 2

    obsoleteExperience, practical familiarity with something.

    • Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, The maisters of his long experiment, And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].

experimentverb/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mɛnt/

  • 1

    To conduct an experiment.

    • We're going to experiment on rats.
    • As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.

    • The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.
  • 3

    obsoleteTo test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

    • Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.
  • 4

    To try something to observe the results.

    • I want to experiment with psychedelics.

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。