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The periphery is the outer edge or border of something, as opposed to the middle. It's used for real places, like the periphery of a city (the outskirts), and also for ideas — something 'on the periphery' of a discussion is not the main topic, just mentioned at the edges.
邊緣、外圍
組成peri- (around) + pher (Greek 'pherein', to carry) + -y
同家族的字
- metaphoralso built from Greek 'pherein' (carry) — a metaphor 'carries' meaning across from one thing to another
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。
peripherynoun/pəˈɹɪf.ə.ɹi/
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The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
- The suburbs are a city's periphery.
- Tumor location was concentrated in the macula and superonasal periphery in patients 13.2 months.
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A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.
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。