喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the two letters P-C standing in for a longer phrase. The letters are the same each time, but they different phrases, so PC is really several unrelated short-forms that happen to share a spelling.

可以想成 P、C 這兩個字母，是某個更長詞組的縮寫。字母每次都一樣，但它縮的是不同的詞，所以 PC 其實是好幾個彼此…更多收起可以想成 P、C 這兩個字母，是某個更長詞組的縮寫。字母每次都一樣，但它縮的是不同的詞，所以 PC 其實是好幾個彼此無關、只是剛好拼法相同的縮寫。判斷它指哪一個，要看你身處哪個場合：電腦、警界，還是談言行的分寸。

原始詞典資料53 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。

PCnoun/ˌpiː ˈsiː/

  • 1

    Initialism of personal computer.

    • “For some of the imaging we do,” says Richard Miner, research manager at the University of Lowell's Center for Productivity Enhancement, “we are using both the Amiga and the PC [with the bridge card]. […]
    • In general, the prices for PC and Mac laptops can be competitive, […]
  • 2

    governmentpoliticsA member of the Conservative Party of Canada.

  • 3

    bingogamesforty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)

PCverb/ˌpiː ˈsiː/

  • 1

    To make politically correct.

    • 1991 December, Renée Gearhart Levy, “PC’ed Out,” Syracuse University Magazine, quoted in Steven Mailloux, Reception Histories, Cornell University Press (1998), →ISBN, page 169.
    • However, the process of ‘PC’ing’ cheese on toast was too much for me.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。