喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture two things in order: one comes first and gets your attention, the other comes second. Secondary is the label for that second position — it still counts, it is just not the one that leads. In schooling, the same word marks the stage that comes after the first one.

可以想成：兩件事排出順序，一個排在前面、佔住你的注意力，另一個排在後面。secondary 就是「排第二」這個位置的…更多收起可以想成：兩件事排出順序，一個排在前面、佔住你的注意力，另一個排在後面。secondary 就是「排第二」這個位置的標籤——不是不重要，只是不是主角。同一個「第二階段」的想法放到學制上，就成了中學那一段。

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固定說法：中學階段的教育

這裡的「第二」不是重要性而是順序：小學是第一段，接下來這段就是第二段。這個意思只活在 secondary education、secondary school 這類固定搭配裡，單獨說 secondary 不會表示中學。

relating to secondary school · adjective · B1

Relating to the school education of young people who are about 11 to 18 years old.

中等教育的

Also in this word

less important · adjective · B1

Less important than something else.

次要的

原始詞典資料24 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。

secondaryadj/ˈsɛkənd(ə)ɹɪ/

  • 1

    Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.

  • 2

    Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.

    • the work of secondary hands
  • 3

    chemistrynatural-sciencesorganic-chemistryDerived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.

  • 4

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesProduced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.

  • 5

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesDeveloped by pressure or other causes.

    • secondary cleavage
  • 6

    anatomymedicinesciencesPertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.

  • 7

    medicinesciencesDependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.

    • Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
    • the secondary symptoms of syphilis
  • 8

    Of less than primary importance.

    • a secondary issue
    • the problem of sexual equality became even more secondary than before in the eyes of the kibbutz and of its women members.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    educationRelated to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.

  • 10

    businessmanufacturingRelating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.

  • 11

    Formed by mixing primary colors.

    • Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
  • 12

    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyRepresenting a reversion to an ancestral state.

    • With the exception of a secondary loss in Dimecoenia, larvae of Ephydrini have prominent, ventral prolegs that bear crochets.

secondarynoun/ˈsɛkənd(ə)ɹɪ/

  • 1

    biologynatural-sciencesornithologyAny flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.

  • 2

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.

  • 3

    governmentmilitarypoliticsThe second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.

  • 4

    businessfinanceAn act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.

  • 5

    American-footballball-gamesfootballThe defensive backs.

  • 6

    businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityAn inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.

  • 7

    One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.

    • the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
    • Old Escalus […] is thy secondary.
  • 8

    astronomynatural-sciencesA secondary circle.

另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    astronomynatural-sciencesA satellite.

  • 10

    educationA secondary school.

    • There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
  • 11

    Anything secondary or of lesser importance.

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。