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Hibernation is the long winter rest itself — the state an animal is in when it . During hibernation the body runs on a very low setting: the heart slows, breathing slows, and the animal uses almost no energy. It is a season-long strategy, not a nap. You can talk about going into hibernation, coming out of hibernation, or a period of hibernation. People also stretch it, just as they stretch the verb: a quiet winter at home, or a computer’s power-off-and-save mode, can be called hibernation. The animal meaning is still the one everything else copies.
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組成The noun beside hibernate. From Latin hībernātus, from hībernō, from hībernus, “wintry.” In English it is hibernate + the noun ending -ion.
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- hibernatethe verb: the animal hibernates
原始詞典資料3 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。
hibernationnoun/ˌhaɪ.bəːˈneɪ.ʃən/
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biologynatural-sciencesA state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
- The bears are in hibernation.
- The bears come out of hibernation in March.
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aerospacebiologybusinessA hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.
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。