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A foolproof method, plan, or system is built so that it is certain to work — even if the person using it is careless or not skilled. People say it about recipes, locks, instructions, and computer steps. Though actually, speakers often stretch it: they want you to feel safe, but nothing in real life is impossible to mess up, so foolproof can be a boast. Neutral, everyday English. You will sometimes hear the verb too: to foolproof a process is to change it so that mistakes become hard to make. Putting it in front of a noun is the usual use.
萬無一失的。工廠和介面設計裡,把東西做成就算疏忽也不容易出錯,台灣也說「防呆」。
組成fool + -proof. The ending -proof means “safe against” (waterproof is safe against water). So foolproof is “safe against a fool” — even someone who is not careful should not be able to break it.
同家族的字
- waterproofsame -proof: safe against water
- bulletproofsame -proof: safe against bullets
- childproofsame -proof: made so a child cannot easily open or break it
- foolthe first half: a careless or unskilled person
原始詞典資料3 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。
foolproofadj/ˈfuːl ˌpɹuːf/
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Of a device: protected against, or designed to be proof against, misuse or error.
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Of an idea or plan: certain to succeed in all eventualities, or claimed to be so; infallible.
- Dill had hit upon a foolproof plan to make Boo Radley come out at no cost to ourselves (place a trail of lemon drops from the back door to the front yard and he’d follow it, like an ant).
- My foolproof recipe is my gâteau fermière.
foolproofverb/ˈfuːl ˌpɹuːf/
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To render (something) foolproof.
- We foolproofed the operations.
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。