喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a hand doing the work — turning the handle, lifting the load, guiding the tool — with no motor and no software taking over. Everything the word does keeps that hand in the picture: the kind of job, the setting on a machine, the skill in your fingers, and even the book you keep at hand while you work.

可以想成：一隻手在做事——轉把手、搬東西、扶著工具——沒有馬達，也沒有程式代勞。這個字的每個用法都把那隻手留在畫面裡…更多收起可以想成：一隻手在做事——轉把手、搬東西、扶著工具——沒有馬達，也沒有程式代勞。這個字的每個用法都把那隻手留在畫面裡：一種工作的性質、機器上的一個檔位、手指的靈巧度，甚至是你做事時擺在手邊的那本書。

From the picture

隨手可查的那本書

這一支也繞著手：一本你做事時擺在手邊、隨時翻開來查的書——英文另一個同義的說法 handbook，用的正是同一個畫面。

instruction book · noun · B2

A book that explains how to do something or how to use a machine.

說明書

機器上的手動檔

把形容詞「手動的」直接當成機器上那個檔位的名字。

manual mode · noun · B2

The setting in which a machine can only be worked by hand and not automatically.

手動模式

Also in this word

hand-operated · adjective · B2

Worked by hand rather than by electricity or a computer.

手動的

physical labor · adjective · B2

Involving work done with your hands or body strength instead of your mind.

勞力的

hand skill/dexterity · adjective · B2

Relating to skill and control in using your hands.

手部靈巧的

原始詞典資料17 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。

Manualname

  • 1

    A male given name from Spanish: a rare spelling variant of Manuel, sometimes considered erroneous.

manualnoun詞源 1/ˈmæn.j(ʊ)əl/

  • 1

    Synonym of handbook.

  • 2

    A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.

    • The dishwasher isn't working; can you remember where we put the manual?
  • 3

    governmentmilitarypoliticsA drill in the use of weapons, etc.

  • 4

    historicalChristianityAn old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.

  • 5

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA keyboard on an organ.

manualadj詞源 2/ˈmæn.j(ʊ)əl/

  • 1

    Performed with the hands.

    • She gave a wild manual brush to her locks.
    • They will be alternately manual workers and officials, so that nobody will become a bureaucrat. Given the simplicity of administration, equality of pay, and the election and removability of public officers, there will be no risk of the formation of a parasitic caste of bureaucrats alienated from society.
  • 2

    Operated by means of the hands.

  • 3

    Performed by a human rather than a machine.

    • The teacher urged the students to do a manual check, because some errors aren't picked up by the spell checker.

manualnoun詞源 2/ˈmæn.j(ʊ)əl/

  • 1

    automotivetransportvehiclesA device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.

    • Tom's transmission shop can fix both manuals and automatics.
  • 2

    A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.

    • I'm not used to automatics; I've always driven manuals.
  • 3

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.

  • 4

    A device that is operated using the hands, or by a human rather than a machine.

  • 5

    medicinesciencesA procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine.

    • do a manual
    • give someone a quick manual
  • 6

    A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine.

  • 7

    A procedure or operation that is done using the hands, or by a human rather than machine.

    • In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie – that is, sliding round when coming out of a trick, lifting two wheels off the ground and jumping with the board.
  • 8

    Manual control or operation.

    • Put the controls to manual.
    • Leave the system on manual.

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。