核心畫面
Picture the noisy box behind a hospital or on a building site that coughs into life when the lights go out, and keeps making electricity for as long as you feed it fuel. It does not store power the way a battery does — it produces power, continuously, out of something else. That box can be held as the picture inside 'generator': a source that keeps turning one thing into a steady supply of another. Everything else the word covers is that same source seen at a different size — a whole company instead of a machine, or a supply of something other than electricity.
可以想成醫院後面或工地上那個吵吵的鐵箱，停電時咳幾聲就發動起來，只要一直加油，就一直產生電。它跟電池不一樣，不是把電…更多收起
可以想成醫院後面或工地上那個吵吵的鐵箱，停電時咳幾聲就發動起來，只要一直加油，就一直產生電。它跟電池不一樣，不是把電存起來，而是不斷把別的東西變成電。這個箱子可以拿來當作 generator 的畫面：一個持續把某樣東西變成另一樣、源源不絕供應的來源。這個字的其他用法，都是同一個來源換個尺寸來看——把機器換成整間公司，或者產出的東西不是電。原始詞典資料8 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。
generatornoun/ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesOne who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicOne who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicOne who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
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mathematicssciencesOne who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
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geometrymathematicssciencesOne who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
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computingengineeringmathematicsOne who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
- When you come across something that looks like a listcomp but is surrounded by parentheses, you're looking at a generator: […]
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A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
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A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
- In 1915, concurrent with the L.S.W.R. electrification, power was supplied from the Waterloo sub-station, and the old equipment held in reserve. Some generator sets were removed, and motor generators installed for standby lighting and other services.
- Heating in the passenger sections is by electricity obtained from the main generator. When heating is dictated by the operation of a thermostat in the roof of the motor coach, engine idling speed is 600 r.p.m. instead of the normal 450 r.p.m. in order to produce a high enough generator voltage output at rest.
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。