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核心畫面

Picture the drawers of a small hardware shop: nails, hinges, screws, hammers. Heavy, metal, made to be held. hardware is the word for the hard, physical stuff you can drop on your foot — which is exactly why, when computers arrived, the word was borrowed for the parts you can touch, as opposed to the software you cannot.

可以想成一家五金行的抽屜：釘子、鉸鏈、螺絲、鐵鎚。重的、金屬的、握在手上有份量的東西。hardware 指的就是這種…更多收起可以想成一家五金行的抽屜：釘子、鉸鏈、螺絲、鐵鎚。重的、金屬的、握在手上有份量的東西。hardware 指的就是這種摸得到、掉下來會砸到腳的硬東西——所以電腦出現以後，這個字才被借去指機器上摸得到的那些部分，跟摸不到的 software 相對。

From the picture

電腦摸得到的那一半

把「硬的、摸得到的」直接搬到電腦上，用來跟摸不到的程式分家；software 這個字其實是後來照著它反過來造的。

computer hardware · noun · B1

The physical parts of a computer, such as the screen and keyboard, not the programs that run on it.

硬體

Also in this word

hardware store goods · noun · B1

Tools and equipment that you use in your home and garden, such as hammers, nails, and screws.

五金

equipment for a job · noun · B1

The machines and equipment needed to do a particular job or activity.

設備

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。

hardwarenoun/ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/

  • 1

    Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.

    • He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.
  • 2

    informalEquipment.

    • military hardware
    • BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions.
  • 3

    computingengineeringmathematicsThe part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc.

    • Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
  • 4

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesElectronic equipment.

  • 5

    Metal implements.

    • The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
  • 6

    slangA firearm.

  • 7

    slangMedals or trophies.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。