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/ˈlaɪtɪŋ/
the lights that a room, building, or street has, or the kind of light they make — how bright, soft, or warm a place looks.
照明；燈光
核心畫面
You can picture lighting as everything that gives a place its light, taken together — the lamps in a room, the strips over a shop counter, the tall lamps down a street. It names both the equipment and the effect: whether the place ends up bright and hard, or soft and warm.
可以想成：把一個空間裡所有發光的東西當成一整件事來看——房間裡的燈、店裡櫃檯上方那排燈管、街上一根根路燈。它一方面指…更多收起
可以想成：把一個空間裡所有發光的東西當成一整件事來看——房間裡的燈、店裡櫃檯上方那排燈管、街上一根根路燈。它一方面指這些燈具本身，一方面也指它們合起來造出的感覺：這個地方看起來是亮得刺眼、還是柔和溫暖。所以 the lighting in here is too harsh 抱怨的不是某一盞燈，而是整體的光。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。
lightingnoun/ˈlaɪtɪŋ/
- 1
The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
- The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.
- The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
- 2
The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
- We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
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datedThe process of annealing metals.
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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。