喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture two points and the straight line between them — then picture the line you actually travel, curving off, taking a detour, passing through somewhere else on the way. Indirect is that second line: it still gets there, but not by the shortest route, and something sits in between.

可以想成：兩個點之間有一條最短的直線，但你實際走的那條線繞了出去，中間還經過了別的地方。indirect 說的就是這…更多收起可以想成：兩個點之間有一條最短的直線，但你實際走的那條線繞了出去，中間還經過了別的地方。indirect 說的就是這第二條線——一樣會到，只是不走最短的路，中間多了一段。這條「不直」的線後來也被用在因果關係和說話方式上。

From the picture

話不直說

把繞路從地圖搬到嘴巴：意思一樣送到了，但不是直線送達，而是暗示、繞著講、讓對方自己聽出來。中間隔的那一段，這次是一層委婉的說法。

not plainly stated · adjective · B2

Not said in a plain, direct way, so the meaning has to be worked out.

拐彎抹角的；不直說的

Also in this word

not the shortest route · adjective · B1

Not the straightest or shortest way from one place to another.

迂迴的；繞路的

not directly caused · adjective · B1

not caused straight by something; happening because of another step in between.

間接的

原始詞典資料10 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。

indirectadj/ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/

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    Not direct

    • While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally.
    • Se asked him some indirect questions to ascertain whether he was single.
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    Not direct:

    • The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but the indirect results could be addiction, or even poverty.
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    Not direct:

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    Not direct:

    • In an effort to beat the traffic jams, they opted to take an indirect route to their destination.
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    human-scienceslogicmathematicsNot direct:

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    Figuratively

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    archaicFiguratively

    • Did you, by indirect, and forced courſes / Subdue, and poyſon this tong Maides affections? / Or came it by requeſt, and ſuch faire queſtion / As ſoule, to ſoule affordeth?

indirectnoun/ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/

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    businessfinanceAn indirect cost.

    • In the case of a piece of equipment such as a pump, the supplier's costs may be broken down into the directs of labour, material, and component costs on the one hand, and the indirects of customized engineering, sales, factory overheads, and order management costs on the other.
    • 2010, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente and José M. Merigó (editos), Computational Intelligence in Business and Economics Gradually analytical thinking was taking a greater awareness of the importance it took for all the investigation system of the possible identification or traceability of fixed costs and, in general, of the indirects of other times.
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    An indirect radiator.

    • Indirect radiators are seldom installed except for rooms on the first or second floors; and in the former case the duct, D, is very short, and in the latter it is usually from 12 to 16 feet long. It should be stated in this connection that indirects of large size should be spread out as much as possible so as to give a large area against the current of air.

indirectverb/ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/

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    computingengineeringmathematicsTo access by means of indirection; to dereference.

    • The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer.
    • These correspond to an indirected parallel write and an indirected parallel read operation respectively.

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。