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If something is folding, it has parts that bend so you can make it smaller to carry or store — a folding chair, a folding bike, a folding map, a folding bed. You open it out again when you need it. This is the everyday word on boxes and shop labels.
If something is folding如果某樣東西是folding的, it has parts that bend就是它有部分可以彎折 so you can make it smaller to carry or store好讓你可以把它變小方便攜帶或收納 a folding chair, a folding bike, a folding map, a folding bed像折疊椅、折疊腳踏車、折疊地圖、折疊床. You open it out again when you need it你需要的時候再把它打開. This is the everyday word這是日常會用的字 on boxes and shop labels常出現在箱子和商店標籤上
Though actually, folding only tells you the parts bend; (a close cousin) hints that the thing is meant to be put away after. A folding chair can live in a ; a bed is often built to vanish into the wall.
Though actually不過其實, folding only tells you the parts bendfolding只告訴你部分會彎折; foldaway (a close cousin)foldaway(它的近親) hints that the thing is meant to be put away after則暗示這東西是要用完收起來的. A folding chair can live in a cupboard折疊椅可以放在櫃子裡; a foldaway bed is often built to vanish into the wallfoldaway床通常設計成可以收進牆裡消失不見
Folding can also name the act itself (the folding of a letter), but mostly meet the adjective on furniture and bikes.
Folding can also name the act itselffolding也可以指這個動作本身 (the folding of a letter)(像信件的摺法), but learners mostly meet the adjective但學習者大多是遇到它當形容詞用 on furniture and bikes出現在家具和腳踏車上
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。
foldingadj/ˈfəʊldɪŋ/
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Designed to fold
- a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair
foldingnoun/ˈfəʊldɪŋ/
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The action of folding; a fold.
- I have ſeen abundance of antique figures in Sculpture and Painting, with juſt the ſame turn in the lower foldings of the Veſt, when the perſon that wears it is in a poſture of tripping forward.
- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
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The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
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computingengineeringmathematicsCode folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesthe deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
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slangPaper money, as opposed to coins.
- He has written twelve of these fat sex and sword-play historical novels and every damn one of them has been on the best-seller lists. He must have made plenty of the folding.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。