- 1n/ˈlæbrətɔːri/ · /ləˈbɒrətri/實驗室
A special room or building where scientists do tests and prepare or study substances.
「laboratory」就是「實驗室」——科學家做實驗、做測試、準備各種物質的地方。日常口語常縮寫成 lab。可以想成一個「專門做科學實驗的房間」，裡面有顯微鏡、試管這些工具。
示範例句 · Example
Our science teacher took us to the laboratory to look through microscopes.
中文翻譯我們的自然老師帶我們到實驗室用顯微鏡觀察。
常見搭配
a research laboratory
研究實驗室
a lab where scientists study new things
She works in a research laboratory.
laboratory tests
實驗室檢驗
checks done in a laboratory
The laboratory tests showed the water was clean.
a science laboratory
科學實驗室
a room for doing science experiments
Our school has a new science laboratory.
a laboratory experiment
實驗室實驗
a test carried out in a laboratory
They did a laboratory experiment on plant growth.
laboratory animals
實驗動物
animals used in scientific tests
Rules protect laboratory animals from harm.
core核心畫面
From the word’s history
From Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.
借自中世紀拉丁文 labōrātōrium。
Picture a room built for finding things out: benches, glass tubes, careful measuring, and rules about what you may touch. It is not where things are made for selling — it is where they are tested, and where you go to get an answer you can trust.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
laboratorynoun/ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/
- 1
A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
- 2
A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
- Again she read the passage that had riveted her attention; and, rising from her seat, carried the still open volume, and laid it on a slab by the furnace in the laboratory: it was a celebrated treatise on poisons, written in the fifteenth century.
- [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
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