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The Tardis is the time machine in the long-running British TV programme Doctor Who. From the outside it is a tall blue wooden box — a copy of the police telephone boxes that stood on British streets long ago — but when you open the door, the inside is a huge control room, far bigger than the box could possibly hold.
The Tardis is the time machine in the long-running British TV programme Doctor WhoTardis 是英國長壽電視劇《超時空奇俠》(Doctor Who) 裡的時光機。From the outside從外面看， it is a tall blue wooden box它是一個高高的藍色木頭箱子—— a copy of the police telephone boxes that stood on British streets long ago是仿照以前英國街頭那種警用電話亭做的—— but when you open the door但打開門之後， the inside is a huge control room裡面是一個超大的控制室， far bigger than the box could possibly hold大得完全不合理，遠遠超過箱子外表能裝下的空間。
The name is an abbreviation of Time And Relative Dimension In Space.
The name is an abbreviation of Time And Relative Dimension In Space這個名字是 Time And Relative Dimension In Space（時間與空間中的相對維度）的縮寫。
Because Doctor Who has been on television since 1963, almost every British person knows it, and the word has escaped the programme: people say a room, a bag, or a shop 'is a bit of a Tardis', or 'like a Tardis', meaning it looks small from outside but turns out to be surprisingly big inside. That is a friendly, joking use, and it is the one a student is most likely to meet in ordinary reading.
Because Doctor Who has been on television since 1963因為《超時空奇俠》從1963年就開始播， almost every British person knows it幾乎每個英國人都認識這個字， and the word has escaped the programme而且這個字已經跳脫這部影集本身： people say a room, a bag, or a shop 'is a bit of a Tardis', or 'like a Tardis'大家會說一個房間、一個包包、或一間店「有點像 Tardis」， meaning it looks small from outside but turns out to be surprisingly big inside意思是外表看起來小，裡面卻大得驚人。That is a friendly, joking use這是一種親切、開玩笑的用法， and it is the one a student is most likely to meet in ordinary reading也是學生在一般閱讀裡最可能遇到的意思。
It is a name, so it takes a capital T, and you will see it written both Tardis and TARDIS.
It is a name因為它是個名字， so it takes a capital T所以T要大寫， and you will see it written both Tardis and TARDIS你會看到 Tardis 和 TARDIS 兩種寫法都有人用。
組成An abbreviation made up in 1963 for the programme: Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space. Each capital letter in TARDIS is the first letter of one of those words.
原始詞典資料5 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。
TARDISname/ˈtɑːdɪs/
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The time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.
- 'While I was in the Rani's TARDIS, I made an adjustment or two.' He chuckled, remembering the occasion.
- The Master's essence escapes his funeral urn and lands the TARDIS in San Francisco on December 30, 1999.
Tardisnoun/ˈtɑːdɪs/
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Something which resembles such a machine, either in that it travels through time or in that its interior is or appears to be larger (or more full of information or things) than its exterior suggested.
- What the designers of the Campanian programmes aim for is something like a 'Tardis effect', the dissolving of actual boundaries into a limitless space[…]
- There was that little person, in the image of the future she had conjured up; there was something that it was like to be that little person; and it would be the same as what it was like to be this little person. A self is a Tardis, a time-machine: […]
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。