receiver 接收的人｜字脈｜Rejoice English Online

核心畫面

One way to picture receiver: something arrives — a parcel, a voice, a ball, a signal, a company's debts — and at the far end there is the one that takes it in. The word never describes the sending. It always points at the end of the journey, at whoever or whatever is waiting there with open hands. That is why a person and a machine can share the same name: the question receiver answers is simply who catches it.

可以想成：有東西正在過來——一個包裹、一個聲音、一顆球、一段訊號，甚至一家公司的爛帳——而在另一端，有人或有東西張著…更多收起

可以想成：有東西正在過來——一個包裹、一個聲音、一顆球、一段訊號，甚至一家公司的爛帳——而在另一端，有人或有東西張著手把它接住。receiver 從來不描述「送出去」那一半。它永遠指著旅程的終點，指著在那裡等著的那一個。也因為這樣，人和機器可以共用同一個字：這個字回答的問題只有一個，是誰接住了。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records receiver as inherited from Middle English receyvour, from Anglo-Norman receverre / receivour, and later re-formed as receive + -er. The -er ending is the ordinary one that names the doer or the doing thing, which is why the same word covers both a person who receives and a device that receives.

Wiktionary 記錄 receiver 承自中古英語 receyvour，來自盎格魯－諾曼語 receverre／receivour，後來又照 receive + -er 重新組成。-er 是那個表示「做這件事的人或東西」的常見字尾，所以同一個字才會同時蓋到「接的人」和「接的機器」。

Wiktionary entry for receiver (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:896125815:68822)

From the picture

球場上接球的那一個

把核心畫面搬到球場：飛過來的不是包裹而是球，而在另一端等著接的那個人，就直接被叫成 receiver。這一家的特別之處在於它是規則裡的角色名稱，不是隨口形容，所以每一種運動都各自固定了自己的 receiver 是誰。

noun · B2

In American football, a player on the attacking team whose job is to run into open space and catch the ball when it is thrown forward.

接球員

把訊號和聲音接下來的東西

核心畫面裡等著接的那一端，不一定要是人。訊號在空中飛過來，把它接下來的機器同樣叫 receiver，因為 -er 這個字尾本來就同時蓋人和東西。差別只在於，這裡接到的東西還要再被變成聲音、畫面或資料。

noun · B2

A piece of equipment that picks up radio, television or other signals travelling through the air, and turns them into sound, pictures or data — for example a satellite receiver.

接收器

Also in this word

noun · B2

A person who receives something that is sent, given or passed to them — the one standing at the other end from the person who sends or gives it.

接收的人

noun · C1

A person or firm officially put in charge of a company that cannot pay what it owes, to take care of its money and property and to decide what happens to them.

破產管理人

noun · C1

A person who buys stolen things from the people who took them and then sells them on, knowing where the things came from.

銷贓者

原始詞典資料14 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。

receivernoun/ɹəˈsi.vɚ/

1
historicalA person who receives.
2
A person who receives.
- I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.
3
A person who receives.
4
A person who receives.
- This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver.
- It took the name Midland & South Western Junction in 1884 and reached Cheltenham, with its M.R. connection, in 1891; but poverty continued - a receiver had been appointed in 1884.
5
American-footballball-gamesfootballA person who receives.
6
ball-gamesgameshobbiesA person who receives.
7
An item or apparatus that receives.
8
chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAn item or apparatus that receives.

另外 6 個記錄的用法

9
historicalAn item or apparatus that receives.
- A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.
10
engineeringfirearmsgovernmentAn item or apparatus that receives.
11
historicalAn item or apparatus that receives.
12
An item or apparatus that receives.
- The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
13
An item or apparatus that receives.
- There they waited until after eleven, then Paulvitch took down the receiver of their telephone. He called a number.
14
businessfinanceAn item or apparatus that receives.

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。