- 1nB2
/rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪləti/
The quality of being able to be trusted, or of working well when you need it.
可靠性；可信賴
核心畫面
The quality of turning out the same way every time you need it — the car that starts on the tenth cold morning as well as the first, the friend who actually shows up. It is not about being excellent once; it is about not letting you down when it matters.
可以想成：每次需要的時候，結果都一樣的那種特質——第十個寒冷早晨照樣發得動的車、說會到就真的會到的朋友。它講的不是「…更多收起
可以想成：每次需要的時候，結果都一樣的那種特質——第十個寒冷早晨照樣發得動的車、說會到就真的會到的朋友。它講的不是「某一次表現很好」，而是「關鍵時刻不會出包」。這也是它跟 quality（品質）的差別：品質看單次好壞，reliability 看的是穩不穩。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。
reliabilitynoun
- 1
The quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.
- Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway.
- 2
educationthe ability to measure the same thing consistently (of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent); that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See also validity).
- 3
engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesmeasurable time of work before failure
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。