取一小塊來知道整體是什麼樣子
這一群就是核心畫面本身，只是有時候當名詞（那一小塊東西），有時候當動詞（去取那一小塊的動作）。共通點是：你手上這一點點，價值不在它自己，而在它替你回答了「整體如何」。
test portion · noun · B2
A small part or amount of something that you look at or test to learn about the whole thing.
樣本
核心畫面
Picture someone taking one out of a huge pot of soup. Nobody can drink the whole pot to find out how it tastes, so you take one small piece out — and you trust that piece to tell you about everything you did not take. That is the whole idea of sample: a small part, pulled out of something too big to handle, standing in for the rest. Everything else the word does grows from that one move — whether the pot is soup, a shop's whole product line, a country's whole population, or a three-minute recording.
可以想成有人從一大鍋湯裡舀出一小匙。沒有人能把整鍋喝完才知道味道，所以你取出一小口——然後相信這一口會告訴你「你沒喝…更多收起
可以想成有人從一大鍋湯裡舀出一小匙。沒有人能把整鍋喝完才知道味道，所以你取出一小口——然後相信這一口會告訴你「你沒喝到的那些」是什麼樣子。sample 的畫面大致就是這樣：從一個大到無法整個處理的東西裡，取出一小塊，讓它代表其餘的部分。這個字後面所有的用法，都像是從這個動作長出來的——不管那一鍋是湯、是一家店的全部商品、是一個國家的全部人口，還是一首三分鐘的歌。Three branches
從一大群人裡抽出一小群
還是「取一小塊代表整體」，只是那一大鍋換成了人。研究者問不到全國兩千三百萬人，所以抽出一千個人來問，再用這一千人的答案去講整個國家——這裡的一小塊不是東西，是一群人。
survey group · noun · B2
A small group of people chosen from a larger group to answer questions or give information.
樣本群
從錄音裡剪一小段來用
這一群保留了「取出一小塊」的動作，但目的翻了個面：前面兩群取一小塊是為了「認識」整體，這裡取一小塊是為了「拿去用」。取出來的鼓聲或人聲不再回頭代表原曲，而是變成新歌的材料。
song snippet · noun · B2
A small part of one song, taken from a recording and used inside a new song.
取樣片段
原始詞典資料12 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。
Samplename
- 1
A surname.
samplenoun/ˈsɑːm.pəl/
- 1
A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
- a blood sample
- He looked down into Glen Doone first, and sniffed as if he were smelling it, like a sample of goods from a wholesale house; and then he looked at the hills over yonder, and then he stared at me.
- 2
mathematicssciencesstatisticsA subset or portion of a population that is systematically selected for measurement, observation, or questioning, with the objective of generating statistical information that accurately reflects the characteristics of the entire population.
- Large samples are generally more reliable than small samples due to having less variability.
- It is interesting to find that, with the exception of a few imperfectly-observed South Sea Islanders, and whose actual numbers, if the measurements are correct, are very few, the English professional classes head the long list [in average height], and that the Anglo-Saxon race takes the chief place in it among the civilised communities, although it is possible it might stand second to the Scandinavian countries if a fair sample of their population were obtained.
- 3
cookingfoodlifestyleA small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
- 4
businessA small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
- 5
entertainmentlifestylemusicA borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
- 6
obsoleteExample; pattern.
- Thus he concludes, and euery hardie knight / His ſample follow’d, and his brethren twaine, / The other Princes put on harneſſe light, / As footmen vſe.
- [The King] Liu’d in Court / (Which rare it is to do) moſt prais’d, moſt lou’d, / A ſample to the yongeſt.
sampleverb/ˈsɑːm.pəl/
- 1
To take or to test a sample or samples of.
- They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.
- Mok was enjoying himself very much. It was not often that he had such an opportunity to sample the delights of Paris. His young master, Ralph, had given him strict orders never to go out at night, or in his leisure hours, unless accompanied by Cheditafa.
- 2
computingengineeringmathematicsTo reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
- 3
entertainmentlifestylemusicTo reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
- To address this novel legal quandary, one legal treatise on copyright has developed the concept of fragmented literal similarity, a method of determining whether a sample-based work is substantially similar to the source it sampled. The name reflects the exactness of the similarity between the snippet of a track that is sampled and the sampled copy of that snippet.
- 4
computer-graphicscomputingengineeringTo make or show something similar to a sample.
- It means that a larger image field can be sampled from a lower resolution copy without much loss in comparative data, only the number of data points to be manipulated.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。