1. 1n/tekˈnɑː.lə.dʒi/ · /tekˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/科技/技術

    The use of science and knowledge to make tools, machines, and systems that solve problems or make life easier.

    「technology」指「把科學知識應用在實際工具和系統上」,包含所有人類用來讓生活更方便的發明和方法。在日常英文中常泛指「電腦、手機、網路等現代工具」,但其範圍更廣,農業工具、醫療設備也是 technology。

    示範例句 · Example

    New technology has made it much easier to share photos with friends and family.

    中文翻譯新科技使得與朋友和家人分享照片變得容易得多。

    常見搭配

    • modern technology

      現代科技

      the technology that exists in the current era

      Modern technology connects people across the world.

    • new technology

      新科技

      recently developed tools or systems

      New technology makes our work faster.

    • use technology

      使用科技

      to use tools and systems powered by science

      We use technology every day without thinking about it.

    • advanced technology

      先進技術

      technology that is very developed and complex

      The hospital uses advanced technology for surgery.

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

Borrowed from Ancient Greek tekhnología, from tékhnē 'art' + -logía 'study'.

借自古希臘文,由「技藝」加「學問」兩個部分組成。

Wiktionary

You can picture 'technology' as science rolled up its sleeves and put to work — knowledge turned into actual tools, machines, and systems that solve real problems or make daily life easier.

可以想成科學捲起袖子下場做事——把知識變成真正的工具、機器和系統,用來解決問題、或讓日常生活更輕鬆。

同家族的字

technologies

原始詞典資料6 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。

technologynoun/tɛkˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/

  • 1

    The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.

    • Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts
    • Humankind relies on technology to keep average standard of living higher than it would otherwise be.
  • 2

    Machines or equipment thus designed.

    • We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
  • 3

    Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).

    • the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
    • Although it can read data quickly, it is very slow at storing it. That has led the industry on a frantic hunt for alternative storage technologies that might unseat flash. Mr. Parkin’s new approach, referred to as “racetrack memory,” could outpace both solid-state flash memory chips as well as computer hard disks, making it a technology that could transform not only the storage business but the entire computing industry. […] Since the tiny magnetic domains have to travel only submolecular distances, it is possible to read and write magnetic regions with different polarization as quickly as a single nanosecond — far faster than existing storage technologies.
  • 4

    Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.

    • Comb jellies lack the most impressive 'technology' of jellyfish - the nematocyst stinging apparatus which is one of the most deadly weapons and fastest cellular processes in nature.
  • 5

    literaryThe study of or a collection of techniques.

  • 6

    archaicA discourse or treatise on the arts.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。