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You can picture a resource as a stock you can reach into when you need it — a store of useful things (money, land, skills, energy) kept ready, that you draw on to get something done, and that can run low if you keep spending it.
可以想成一個「需要時可以伸手去取的存量」：一批備著的有用東西（錢、土地、技能、力氣），平常放在那裡，等你要做事時就從…更多收起
可以想成一個「需要時可以伸手去取的存量」：一批備著的有用東西（錢、土地、技能、力氣），平常放在那裡，等你要做事時就從裡面調用——而且一直用就會見底。所有意思都圍著這個「可供調用的儲備」打轉。原始詞典資料6 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。
resourcenoun詞源 1/ɹɪˈzɔːs/
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Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
- Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,[…]. This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet.
- By French-Style Revolution I don't mean a violent overthrow of the ruling elite as much as a tumultuous reset of how resources and power are distributed. Systems become vulnerable to such resets when they become highly asymmetrical in how they distribute resources and power, and rigid in their defense of the extreme inequality of the distribution.
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A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.
- a man or woman of resource
- This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
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Something that can be used to help achieve an aim, especially a book, equipment, etc. that provides information for teachers and students.
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computingengineeringmathematicsHardware or software that is accessible by a computer, network, or another object connected to a computer.
resourceverb詞源 1/ɹɪˈzɔːs/
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To supply with resources.
- All children receive it and, for the most part, do so in institutions that are approved by the state and, to a greater or lesser extent, resourced by the state.
resourceverb詞源 2
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To source anew or differently; to find or provide a new source for.
- European retailers resourcing supplies from domestic to foreign firms generate adjustment pressures in the European Union in the same way that cross-border production unbundling does. Also, more channels with a potential impact on[…]
- [The] army found themselves having problems resourcing supplies for their army. The capture of the fortified city of Maastricht would help alleviate this strategical problem of unreliable sources of supplies and would allow Catholic France to[…]
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。