- 1模擬、模擬訓練、模擬情境（電腦或訓練場合極常用）
A simulation is the activity of making conditions like the real ones, especially to test something, or the set of conditions you get when you do that. A flight simulation, a computer simulation of the weather, a classroom simulation of a job interview. Scientists, soldiers, doctors, and game-makers run simulations because the real thing would be too costly, too slow, or too dangerous. Though actually, the word is older than computers. English had it in the 1300s for pretending, even for putting on a false show, and that older sense — simulation as a kind of act — still sits in formal writing. Today the testing-and-training sense is the one students meet first. It is a noun, more at home in school, work, and news than in very casual chat, where people may just say “we ” or “it’s a game.”
組成First recorded in 1340 as Middle English symulacioun, from Middle French simulation, from Old French, from Latin simulātiōnem, from simulō “imitate.” In today’s English it is also clearly simulate + -ion.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
simulationnoun/ˌsɪm.jʊˈleɪ.ʃn̩/
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Something that simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.
- This exercise is a simulation of actual battle conditions.
- The most reliable simulation predicts that the hurricane will turn north.
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The process of simulating.
- Despite extensive simulation in the design phase, the aircraft failed to behave as expected.
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video-gamesA video game designed to convey a more or less realistic experience, as of a sport or warfare.
- Some kids in the classroom will be playing simulations after school.
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Assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true.
- For to him that opens himself, Men will hardly shew themselves averse, but will (fair) let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought. And therefore it is a good shrewd Proverb of the Spaniard, Tell a lye, and find a Troth; as if there were no way of discovery, but by Simulation.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesThe act of falling over in order to be awarded a foul, when no foul has been committed.
- "Players are very good at simulation," said Premier League referee Graham Poll. "I'm not saying they do practice, but I find it hard to believe they are so good at something without practicing. We have to issue more cards because it is the only way we can stop simulation spoiling the game. It is a cancer."
- In the build-up to the second spot-kick, André Villas-Boas felt United striker Danny Welbeck had deliberately tripped over the leg of Branislav Ivanovic rather than an intentional foul being committed. "Referees have pretty clear orders on simulation, but it is difficult for them to assess the difference between simulation and fouls in those situations," he said.
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