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Residual means what is left after a process or event is finished, or after the main part has been taken away. After you wash a pan, a residual smell of garlic might stay; after a storm, residual water sits in the road.
Residual Residual(殘留的) means指的是 what is left after a process or event is finished一個過程或事件結束後剩下的東西 or after the main part has been taken away或是主要部分被拿走之後剩下的東西。After you wash a pan你洗完鍋子之後 a residual smell of garlic might stay可能還會殘留一股大蒜味 after a storm暴風雨過後 residual water sits in the road路上會留著殘留的積水。
Doctors and scientists use it a lot: residual risk, residual heat, residual disease. As a noun, a residual is that leftover itself.
Doctors and scientists use it a lot醫生和科學家很常用這個字 residual risk殘餘風險 residual heat餘熱 residual disease殘留的疾病。As a noun當名詞用時 a residual residual就是指 that leftover itself那個剩下來的東西本身。
It is a school-and-office word; everyday English often just says leftover or remaining.
It is a school-and-office word這是一個學術或辦公室用語 everyday English often just says日常英文通常只會說 leftover or remaining leftover或remaining(剩下的)。
Though actually, people stretch it to feelings too — residual anger after a fight, meaning the anger that did not quite go. In money talk, residual income is money that keeps coming after the work is already done.
Though actually不過實際上 people stretch it to feelings too人們也會把它用在情緒上 residual anger after a fight吵架後的residual anger(殘留的怒氣) meaning the anger that did not quite go指還沒完全消散的怒氣。In money talk在理財用語裡 residual income residual income(剩餘收入) is money that keeps coming after the work is already done是指工作做完之後還會持續進來的錢。
組成From residue, from Old French residu, from Latin residuum (a remainder), from residuus (left over), the perfect participle of resideō (to remain behind), from re- (back, again) + sedeō (to sit). Recorded since 1570.
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。
residualadj/ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.ʊəl/
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Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.
- Yet certain films leave a residual memory—such as Psycho: many people still feel uneasy showering in a motel bathroom.
- Abolitionists argued that race had no place in a free and democratic society as a dividing line. Economic and social policies and practices, they argued, should be race-neutral and egalitarian. Yet despite these racially egalitarian values, much abolitionist rhetoric exhibited a strong residual commitment to racialist thinking and a palpable devotion to white supremacy.
residualnoun/ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.ʊəl/
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A remainder left over at the end of some process.
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Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
- The tentative deal announced this week by the Writers Guild of America includes many industry-specific aspects, such as the size of writers’ rooms and improved residuals for streaming.
- Because, despite his very small role as shark victim Alex Kintner when he was 12, Voorhees is still being paid residuals – royalties – 50 years later. Every time Jaws is on TV, he earns money. […] “It pays to die,” is how he put it in a recent interview with Syfy.
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mathematicssciencesstatisticsThe difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest.
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A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.
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。