- 1蒸汽龐克。台灣多半直接說「蒸汽龐克」，指那種黃銅、齒輪、發條的復古科幻風格；大陸也寫「蒸汽朋克」，「龐克」是台灣對 punk 的慣用譯法。日常對話中，講的常是視覺風格（蒸汽龐克風），不一定在講小說。
A style of story — books, films, comics, games — set in a made-up world that looks like the 1800s, the age of steam engines. There are machines in it: flying ships, robots, time machines. But they are built the old way, out of brass and gears and steam, not electricity or computers. So it is a kind of science fiction that runs backwards: the future as people in 1880 might have imagined it. The word is also used for a LOOK, and this is how most students will meet it. Clothes, watches, lamps, phone cases, a whole coffee shop can be called steampunk if they have that brass-and-gear feeling. Here the word has drifted a long way from stories — a steampunk keyboard is not telling anyone a story, it just looks like that. People also use it as an adjective (a steampunk dress, steampunk art) more often than as a noun now. It is a young word, from 1987, made as a joke by the writer K. W. Jeter, and it kept the joke's shape. It has no formal feeling and no rude feeling; it is simply a fan word that escaped into the world of design.
組成steam + -punk. The steam is the power of the 1800s — steam trains, steam ships. The -punk part was borrowed from an older word, cyberpunk, and once it was borrowed it turned into a kind of ending that means 'a made-up world built around this one technology'. It no longer carries the music or rebellion meaning of punk on its own.
原始詞典資料4 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。
steampunknoun/ˈstiːm.pʌŋk/
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A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.
- There's railroad trains, a lot of steam-driven stuff, but that's about it. More ‘steam punk’, I suppose.
- It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines.
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A writer of steampunk fiction.
- Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, [James] Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like steam-punks, perhaps...
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A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.
- It wound up being an overwhelmingly positive experience that made me appreciate the steampunks around me even more.
- It is extremely rare that you speak to someone who says "I want to be an ...." This would suggest that for the vast majority of steampunks their choice of outfit (at least intitially) is less a conscious attempt at portrayal and more of a spontaneous and potentially subconscious growth of an idea.
steampunkverb/ˈstiːm.pʌŋk/
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To depict in a steampunk manner.
- [Director Paul W.S.] Anderson's answer to the question of what to update in this film seems to be: steampunk everything. Hence the elaborate airship contraptions and weapons, all made in wood and iron and powered by choo-choo engines. What seems to be missing is the why. When far-fetched techno-bits and bobs are put into a story, these items must have a meaning and purpose. Here, the gadgets are throwaway items used for their visual effect, then discarded.
- There is also a strong draw on literature and film for ideas. Some steampunks will take a favorite character, such as Boba Fett, Alice, Dorothy, Professor Snape, or Sherlock Holmes, and “steampunk” him or her out by adding elements of leather (or faux leather), gears, clock parts, electricity, motors, and so on.
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