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Relating to careful watching, especially as a way to gather information. In science, an observational study means researchers watch and record what naturally happens, rather than changing anything themselves — different from an experiment. In comedy, observational comedy means jokes built from noticing funny, true details in everyday life, rather than made-up stories.
觀察的；observational study 觀察性研究；observational comedy 生活觀察式喜劇
組成observe + -ation + -al.
同家族的字
- observethe base verb — to watch carefully
- observationthe noun — the act of watching, or something noticed
- observera person who watches
原始詞典資料1 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。
observationaladj/ˌɒbzəˈveɪʃənəl/
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Relating to observation, especially scientific observation.
- The essential fact is simply that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact, are mathematical pictures.
- An alternative way of defending the proposal to conflate NP MOVEMENT with XP MOVEMENT would be to question the observational adequacy of the claim that NP MOVEMENT only ever has NP constituents as its target.
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。