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A magnet is a piece of metal (usually iron or a mix of metals) that can pull other metal objects toward it, or push them away, without touching them. Every magnet has two ends, called — a north pole and a south pole — and opposite pull toward each other while same push apart. People also use 'magnet' for something that is not metal at all but strongly attracts people, attention, or trouble — you might hear 'that shop is a magnet for tourists' or 'he's a magnet for bad luck.'
磁鐵
組成From Greek. Long ago, there was a place called Magnesia where people found special stones that could pull iron. The word 'magnet' comes from the name of that place.
同家族的字
- magneticthe adjective form — describes anything that has this pulling power, like a 'magnetic field'
原始詞典資料3 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。
magnetnoun/ˈmæɡ.nɪt/
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A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
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informalAn alluring or attractive person or thing.
- He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet.
- Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
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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。