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An interstice is a small space, gap, or crack — the thin bit of room in something, or between things that sit close together. You might find it between old stones in a wall, between leaves, or in a careful description of a tiny pause. It is a rather formal, word. In everyday talk people just say gap, crack, or space. Writers like it because it feels exact: not a big hole, only the little space in between. Though actually, people also stretch it a little, and talk about the interstices of a day or an argument, meaning the small leftover bits of time or room.
縫隙、空隙（偏書面；口語多說「縫」或「空隙」）。
組成From late Middle English interstice, from Old French interstice or directly from Latin interstitium, “a space between, gap, interval.” That comes from intersistere, “to stand in between, to stop in the middle,” from inter- (between) + sistere (to stand, to stop).
同家族的字
- interstitialthe adjective from the same Latin word
- resistshares Latin sistere, to stand
- persistshares Latin sistere, to keep standing
原始詞典資料4 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。
intersticenoun/ɪnˈtɜː.stɪs/
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A small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, such as between cords in a rope, components of a multiconductor electrical cable or atoms in a crystal.
- 1887, Osborne Reynolds, Experiments showing Dilatancy, in Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 11, Royal Institution of Great Britain, page 360, The tide leaves the sand, though apparently dry on the surface, with all its interstices perfectly full of water which is kept up to the surface of the sand by capillary attraction; at the same time the water is percolating through the sand from the sands above where the capillary action is not sufficient to hold the water. When the foot falls on this water-saturated sand it tends to change its shape, but it cannot do this without enlarging the interstices—without drawing in more water. This is a work of time, so that the foot is gone again before the sand has yielded.
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A fragment of space.
- Relics of the British empire now mostly survive in the interstices of the global economy. They are the major winners from the fiscal haemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalisation.
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An interval of time required by the Roman Catholic Church between the attainment of different degrees of an order.
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A small interval of time free to be spent on activities other than one's primary goal.
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。