核心畫面
Picture a big sheet of paper ruled into rows and columns, with numbers spread out across it so you can see them all at once and add them up. The computer version kept the picture and the name. The word points sometimes at the program that draws the grid, sometimes at the one file you made in it.
可以想成：一大張攤開的紙，畫滿橫列和直行，數字一格一格鋪在上面，一眼就能看完，還能一路加總。電腦把這張紙搬進螢幕，畫…更多收起
可以想成：一大張攤開的紙，畫滿橫列和直行，數字一格一格鋪在上面，一眼就能看完，還能一路加總。電腦把這張紙搬進螢幕，畫面和名字都留了下來。這個字有時指畫出格子的那套軟體，有時指你在裡面做出來的那一份檔案——中文都叫「試算表」，靠上下文分辨。原始詞典資料4 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。
spreadsheetnoun/ˈspɹɛd.ʃiːt/
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computingengineeringmathematicsA computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.
- The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.
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A document created with such an application.
- A little later in this chapter, we'll run through some of the most common methods journalists use to analyze the material they gather and store in spreadsheets.
- For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code.
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datedA sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.
spreadsheetverb/ˈspɹɛd.ʃiːt/
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To model or compute by means of a spreadsheet.
- If you'd spreadsheeted the cascade charts and sorted it by each name's sphere of influence, then the people Carrie Johnstone sent the police to get constituted a big chunk of the middle third—people who “commanded” maybe four of five others—and maybe 10 percent of the top influencers.
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。