喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture format as the agreed shape or plan a thing is poured into — the decided layout that says what goes where, in what order, and how it all hangs together. Before any content fills it, the format is the empty frame everyone has settled on.

可以想成 format 是一個事先講好的「形狀／框架」：在內容填進去之前，已經先決定好什麼放在哪、按什麼順序、用什麼…更多收起可以想成 format 是一個事先講好的「形狀／框架」：在內容填進去之前，已經先決定好什麼放在哪、按什麼順序、用什麼樣子呈現。它不是內容本身，而是承裝內容的那個固定樣式——像一個事先排好的模子，東西倒進去就會長成那個樣。

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。

formatnoun/ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt/

  • 1

    The layout of a publication or document.

    • The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work.
  • 2

    The form of presentation of something.

  • 3

    broadcastingmediaradioThe type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.

    • The radio station changed the format of its evening program.
  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsA file type.

formatverb/ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt/

  • 1

    To create or edit the layout of a document.

  • 2

    Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.

  • 3

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.

    • I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.

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。