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"Temporal" is a formal word that means "related to time," as opposed to "eternal" or "spatial" (related to space) - for example, "temporal order" means the order things happened in. It also has a separate, medical use: the "temporal bone" and "temporal lobe" are the parts of your skull and brain near your temples, the sides of your head in front of your ears. Some word historians think this second sense comes from the same root because hair at the temples is often the first to turn grey, showing the passing of time - though that connection is more of a nice story than a proven fact.
(時間上的) 時間的；(解剖) 顳部的、太陽穴的。
組成From Latin "tempus/tempor-" (time).
同家族的字
- temporaryshares 'tempor-' (time) - lasting only a short time
- contemporaryshares 'tempor-' (time) - existing at the same time as something else
原始詞典資料10 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。
temporaladj詞源 1/ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/
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Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
- temporal power, temporal courts
- The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled
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Relating to time:
- The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsRelating to time:
temporalnoun詞源 1/ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/
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Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
- for God's people love always to be dealing as well in temporals as spirituals
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.
temporaladj詞源 2/ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/
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anatomymedicinesciencesOf or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
temporalnoun詞源 2/ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyAny of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。