- 1（耳）垂；（腦、肺等器官的）葉
A lobe is a rounded part of something bigger. The one most people know is the earlobe, the soft round bottom part of your ear. But doctors also use 'lobe' for the rounded sections of organs, like the lobes of the brain or the lobes of the lungs.
From the word’s history
From Middle French lobe, from New Latin lobus, from Ancient Greek λοβός 'lobe of the ear or liver'.
經中古法文 lobe，源自希臘文 λοβός「耳垂、肝葉」。
組成From Greek 'lobos', a rounded part or pod. No further split.
原始詞典資料3 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。
lobenoun/ləʊb/
- 1
Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
- A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.
- He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.
- 2
anatomymedicinesciencesA clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.
- The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
- 3
A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.
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