Striated means marked with narrow lines, stripes, or bands — often lines of different colour, or thin grooves you can feel with a finger.

Striated means marked with narrow lines, stripes, or bandsstriated指帶有細細的線條、條紋或帶狀紋路 — often lines of different colour通常是不同顏色的線條, or thin grooves you can feel with a finger或是用手指摸得到的細溝

It is a formal, technical word.

It is a formal, technical word這是個正式的專業術語

Geologists use it for rock scratched into parallel lines by a moving glacier; biologists use it for 'striated muscle', the kind of muscle that looks striped under a microscope and that you can move on purpose (your arm), as opposed to smooth muscle (your stomach wall). It also appears when describing minerals, shells, leaves, and sometimes cloud or sand patterns.

Geologists use it for rock scratched into parallel lines by a moving glacier地質學家用它形容被移動的冰河刮出平行線條的岩石; biologists use it for 'striated muscle'生物學家用它來說『striated muscle橫紋肌』, the kind of muscle that looks striped under a microscope那種在顯微鏡下看起來有條紋的肌肉 and that you can move on purpose (your arm)而且是你可以自主控制的肌肉（像手臂）, as opposed to smooth muscle (your stomach wall)跟smooth muscle平滑肌（像胃壁）相對. It also appears when describing minerals, shells, leaves描述礦物、貝殼、葉子時也會用到它, and sometimes cloud or sand patterns有時候也用在雲或沙的紋路

In ordinary conversation English speakers would just say 'striped' or 'lined'; striated belongs to science writing, museum labels, and medical texts. It works as an adjective, and there is a rare verb 'striate' behind it.

In ordinary conversation English speakers would just say 'striped' or 'lined'日常對話裡英語使用者就只會說striped或lined; striated belongs to science writing, museum labels, and medical textsstriated屬於科學寫作、博物館標示牌和醫學文獻. It works as an adjective它是形容詞, and there is a rare verb 'striate' behind it背後還有一個少見的動詞striate