- 1nB1
/ˈaʊtɪdʒ/
A period of time when a service, such as electricity, cannot be provided.
停電；斷供
複數 outages
核心畫面
Picture the lights going off and staying off for two hours. The word does not name the fault and it does not name the darkness — it names the stretch of time when the service was not there. That is why you can measure it: a four-hour outage.
可以想成：燈熄了，而且兩個小時都沒亮。這個字指的不是故障本身，也不是黑暗，而是「服務中斷的那段時間」。正因為它是一段…更多收起
可以想成：燈熄了，而且兩個小時都沒亮。這個字指的不是故障本身，也不是黑暗，而是「服務中斷的那段時間」。正因為它是一段時間，所以可以量：a four-hour outage（斷了四小時）。它主要是美式用法，英國人講停電多半說 a power cut。原始詞典資料2 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。
outagenoun/ˈaʊ.tɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
- [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
- Along with the planned de-energizations, PG&E customers are also dealing with a number of unplanned power outages – like in Davis, where about 2,700 customers are in the dark, and El Dorado Hills, where more than 5,100 customers are impacted.
- 2
The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.
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。