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Positional means “to do with position” — where someone or something sits, or what place a person has in a group or a job.
Positional means意思是 "to do with position"「跟位置有關」 — where someone or something sits某人或某物在哪裡, or what place a person has in a group or a job或某人在團體或工作中的位置
A positional advantage in a game is a better place, not necessarily more points or more pieces. In an office, a positional title is the name of the job (manager, assistant), as opposed to the person’s own name.
in a game在遊戲裡 a positional advantage位置優勢 is是 a better place更好的位置, not necessarily不一定是 more points or more pieces更多的分數或棋子。In an office在辦公室裡, a positional title職位名稱 is是 the name of the job工作的名稱 (manager, assistant)(像經理、助理), as opposed to而不是 the person's own name那個人自己的名字
Sport, chess, grammar, and workplace talk all use it.
Sport, chess, grammar, and workplace talk運動、西洋棋、文法、還有職場用語 all use it都會用到這個字
Though actually, students sometimes hear it and think only of a job; a ball on a field, a piece on a board, or a word in a sentence can be positional too — it is about where it sits.
Though actually不過其實, students sometimes hear it and think only of a job學生有時候聽到這個字只會想到工作; a ball on a field, a piece on a board, or a word in a sentence球場上的球、棋盤上的棋子,或句子裡的一個字 can be positional too也都可以是positional(跟位置有關) — it is about where it sits重點就是它在哪裡
The word is a bit technical. Everyday English often just says “about position” or “in that place.”
The word is a bit technical這個字有點專業。Everyday English日常英文 often just says通常就直接說 "about position" or "in that place"「about position」或「in that place」
組成position + -al (turns the noun into an adjective meaning “related to position”).
同家族的字
- positionpositional is position with -al, meaning “to do with position”
原始詞典資料5 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。
positionaladj
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Relating to the position of something.
- The mattress platform on Davey’s bed fell unexpectedly, “trapping her neck against the upper surface of the side panel of the bed’s base,” Chipperfield explained. “Unable to free herself, she died of positional asphyxia. One of the two gas-lift pistons was defective.”
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economicssciencesHaving or pertaining to a value that is a function of its social desirability, as opposed to its utility.
- Of course, this ex post problem may have a negative feedback on the ex ante desirability of having market transactions for positional goods.
- Since economics is about scarcity, its study must be based on positional conflict, as indicated by the behaviour of the nouveau riche, or of poor people, who proudly demonstrate their latest smartphones or plasma TV sets.
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board-gameschessgamesBased on long-term strategy, on gaining and exploiting small advantages, and on analyzing the larger position, rather than calculating more immediate tactics.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAn argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its position in the invocation code, rather than on its name; compare with named.
positionalnoun
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA member of a class of verb in some languages that indicates position or posture.
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。