喜樂美語
  1. 1(建築的)大門；(網路)入口網站；(奇幻)傳送門

    A door or gateway, especially a large, grand, or important-looking one — like the portal of a cathedral. Online, a portal is a website that acts as a starting point, gathering links or information in one place (a school's student portal, a government service portal). In games and fantasy stories, a portal is a magical doorway that instantly takes you somewhere else.

From the word’s history

From Middle English portal, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from Latin porta.

源自古法文 portal 和中世紀拉丁文 portāle，來自 porta。

Wiktionary

組成port- (Latin porta, meaning gate or door) + -al

同家族的字

  • portboth come from Latin words for a passage or opening

原始詞典資料22 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Portalname

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A surname.

portalnoun/ˈpɔːtl̩/

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    An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.

    • The local library, a portal of knowledge.
    • Last, but very much not least, are the portals of the Ffestiniog Railway's Moelwyn Tunnel. The tunnel's story itself is well told - it was part of the preservationists' deviation required to get around a reservoir that had flooded the earlier route. But the reason for its inclusion here is that it is probably the most recently constructed, properly architected tunnel portal in Britain.
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    An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.

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    A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.

    • The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
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    A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.

    • I have already inputted my info on the portal.
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    A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.

    • You need to have a portal to have a driver's license.
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    anatomymedicinesciencesA short vein that carries blood into the liver.

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    fantasyliteraturemediaA magical or technological aperture leading to another location, period in time, or dimension.

    • Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.
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    architectureA lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.

另外 6 個記錄的用法
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    architectureFormerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.

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    A grandiose and often lavish entrance.

    • Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.
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    The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.

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    A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

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    The NCAA transfer portal, a database and compliance tool designed to facilitate student-athletes who wish to change schools.

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    computer-graphicscomputingengineeringA connecting window between volumes, in portal rendering.

portaladj/ˈpɔːtl̩/

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    anatomymedicinesciencesOf or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.

    • the portal vein

portalverb/ˈpɔːtl̩/

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    fantasyliteraturemediaTo use a portal (magical or technological doorway).

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