喜樂美語
  1. 1（情勢）變動不定、動盪不明；常用在 in a state of flux（處於變動之中）

    Constant change, of the kind that makes it hard to say what things will be like next. The most common use by far is the set phrase 'in a state of flux' — a company, a market, a person's life, a set of rules — meaning everything is still moving and nothing has settled. It carries a mild feeling of : not disaster, just no firm ground yet. This sense is fairly formal, at home in news writing, business talk, and essays. The word has other lives too: in science, flux is a flow or a rate of flow through something, and in metalwork, flux is a substance you put on metal before soldering so the join is clean — that is a countable, ordinary noun you would buy in a shop. Same spelling, different worlds; the meaning here is the changing-situation one.

From the word’s history

From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus 'flow'.

經古法文 flux 來自拉丁文 fluxus「流動」。

Wiktionary

組成From Latin 'fluxus', a flow, which comes from 'fluere', to flow. The idea is a situation that is still flowing, not yet frozen into shape.

同家族的字

  • fluentsame Latin 'fluere' (to flow): language that flows smoothly
  • fluidsame Latin 'fluere': a thing that flows; also 'a fluid situation', which is very close to 'in flux'
  • influx'in-' plus this same 'flux': a flowing in, as of people or money
  • fluvialsame 'fluere' family through Latin 'fluvius', a stream

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

fluxnoun/flʌks/

  • 1

    The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.

    • By […]the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body.
    • 1991, Mann, H., Fyfe, W., Tazaki, K., & Kerrich, R., Biological Accumulation of Different Chemical Elements by Microorganisms from Yellowstone National Park, USA. Mechanisms And Phylogeny Of Mineralization In Biological Systems, 357-362. Investigation of the silica budget for the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park by Truesdell et al. suggest that the present fluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr.
  • 2

    A state of ongoing change.

    • The schedule is in flux at the moment.
    • Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.
  • 3

    A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.

    • It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.
  • 4

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.

    • That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
  • 5

    archaicA disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.

    • The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrange fluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel.
  • 6

    archaicDiarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.

  • 7

    The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

fluxverb/flʌks/

  • 1

    To use flux on.

    • You have to flux the joint before soldering.
  • 2

    To melt.

  • 3

    To flow as a liquid.

fluxadj/flʌks/

  • 1

    Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

    • The flux nature of all things here.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。