- 1n/dʒen/資訊/情報
口語Useful information about something, especially the facts you need to know.
gen 是英式英語裡很口語的說法,指『某件事的實用資訊』,常說 the gen on something(關於某事的內幕消息)。可以想成把 information 縮短成一個輕鬆的小字,朋友之間才用;正式場合還是用 information。
示範例句 · Example
Ask Hana — she's got all the gen on the new skate park.
中文翻譯問漢娜——她掌握了關於那個新滑板公園的所有資訊。
常見搭配
the gen on something
關於某事的資訊
the useful facts about something
Give me the gen on the new game.
all the gen
所有需要的資訊
all the information you need
She's got all the gen on local buses.
意思相近
informationinfofactsdetailslowdown
core核心畫面
From the word’s history
Clipping of general.
general 的縮寫。
Picture someone leaning over and saying, quietly, 'here's what you actually need to know'. Not everything about the subject — just the useful part, handed over as one packet.
意思相近
informationinfofactsdetailslowdown
原始詞典資料17 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。
Genname詞源 1
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A Niger-Congo language of Togo.
Gennoun詞源 2
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CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement.
Genname詞源 3/d͡ʒɛn/
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A female given name, a short form of Genevieve.
- Hal. Oh, don't fuss, Gen. I'll do my part all right. Mamma's 'structed me, you know. Genevieve. Instructed, Hal.
- “Gen? Listen, I'm so sorry I did that, Gen. You gotta believe me. I'm not like this and you know it.” “Listen...Kyle, I...I don't think I want to see you anymore.” Genevieve's voice cracked. “Gen!”
gennoun詞源 1/d͡ʒɛn/
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informalInformation.
- Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.
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biologybirdwatchingnatural-sciencesInformation about the location of a bird.
- I had some recent gen that they had been seen quite recently at Kunoth Well, a little dot on the map on the edge of the Tanami Desert.
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slanglifestyleFan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
genadj詞源 1/d͡ʒɛn/
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general
genverb詞源 3/d͡ʒɛn/
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To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.
- genned with a LLM
- Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.
gennoun詞源 3/d͡ʒɛn/
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slangA generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
genverb詞源 4/d͡ʒɛn/
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literaturemediapublishingTo genetically engineer.
- Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.
- Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.
gennoun詞源 5/d͡ʒɛn/
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obsoleteslangA shilling.
- The betting also began to shift. "Sixpence Ned wins!" cried three or four; "Sixpence he loses!" answered another; "Done!" and up went the halfpence. "Half-a-crown Joe loses!"—"Here you are," answered Joe, but he lost again. "I'll try you a 'gen'" (shilling) said a coster; "And a 'rouf yenap'" (fourpence), added the other. "Say a 'exes'" (sixpence).—"Done!" and the betting continued, till the ground was spotted with silver and halfpence.
- "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."
gennoun詞源 6/d͡ʒɛn/
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informalA generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
- "Mladenovic playing in what the young gen is calling a crop top, but what my gen is calling a bra," Bouchard tweeted. "Sign of the times that Wimbledon has no issue with that. Still can remember the year some had troubles because of 'too short' skirts lol."
- It’s anyone’s guess whether such attitudes will persist into adulthood, but if Gen Z (and the gens to come) do prove more alco-skeptic than their forbears then the above twelve steps are deftly primed to cash in.
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informalA specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
- For my fellow first-gens, get ready to hide a smirk, because your life story is likely hidden somewhere in this chapter. For the uninitiated—that is, the person who's never had a thing to do with the Arab way of doing things (namely dating)—I advise you to buckle up.
- […] I witness firsthand the difficult "downstream" outcomes (Grusky 2014) of social class stratification in a university setting where approximately 3,400 undergraduates (13% of the undergraduate population) are first in their families to attend and/or graduate from college (first-gens). Most of these students are low income and nearly 1,200 first-gens have grown up in poverty.
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