喜樂美語

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Picture several people or things gathered into one clump that you can point at as 'one thing' — a group. The whole word is this single idea seen from two sides: the clump itself (noun), and the act of pulling things into such a clump (verb).

可以想成把好幾個人或東西聚成一坨，讓你能當成『一個整體』來指——這就是 group。整個字其實就是同一個畫面的兩面：…更多收起可以想成把好幾個人或東西聚成一坨，讓你能當成『一個整體』來指——這就是 group。整個字其實就是同一個畫面的兩面：那坨東西本身（名詞），以及把東西攏成那坨的動作（動詞）。

原始詞典資料19 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。

groupnoun/ɡɹuːp/

  • 1

    A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

    • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
    • Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
  • 2

    group-theorymathematicssciencesA set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

    • Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
    • In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).
  • 3

    archaicgeometrymathematicssciencesAn effective divisor on a curve.

  • 4

    A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

    • Did you see the new jazz group?
  • 5

    astronomynatural-sciencesA small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

  • 6

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

  • 7

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA functional group.

    • Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
  • 8

    human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceA subset of a culture or of a society.

另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    governmentmilitarypoliticsAn air force formation.

  • 10

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesA collection of formations or rock strata.

  • 11

    computingengineeringmathematicsA number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

  • 12

    An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

  • 13

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

  • 14

    hobbieslifestylesportsA set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.

    • It is the third of eight matches that Spain will play in Group I, but the coach Vicente del Bosque has described it as being more akin to the first leg of a cup semi-final.
  • 15

    businessA commercial organization.

  • 16

    Group therapy.

    • Aside from occasional moments of belligerence, he was a pretty affable guy. I rather liked him and, I guess, wanted him to like me. But his affability also included the odd "faggot" joke, which left me dubious over talking with him about being gay, even in "group."

groupverb/ɡɹuːp/

  • 1

    To put together to form a group.

    • group the dogs by hair colour
  • 2

    To come together to form a group.

    • For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal.
  • 3

    hobbieslifestylesportsTo eliminate in the group stage of a competition.

    • Clubs like Real Sociedad are getting grouped in the Europa League. Even clubs like Atletico Madrid and Villareal are finding it hard to progress to the R16 in the UCL.

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。