喜樂美語
  1. 1終結者（結束某事物的人事物）；(天文)明暗界線（月球或行星上日夜交界的線）；也是電影《魔鬼終結者》的片名

    Something or someone that ends or stops something. Most people today know the word from the 'Terminator' movies, about a robot sent from the future. In science, a 'terminator' is the line on a moon or planet that separates its side from its dark side. Outside of science and that movie, it's a fairly rare, formal word - everyday English usually just says 'ended' or 'stopped'.

From the word’s history

Partly from Latin terminator, from terminō; partly terminate + -or. The killer-android sense is from the 1984 film The Terminator.

源自拉丁文 terminō「結束」；殺手機器人義出自1984年電影。

Wiktionary

組成terminate + -or (an ending meaning 'one that does the action').

同家族的字

  • terminatethe base verb, to end
  • terminalshares the Latin root terminus, end or boundary
  • termshares the same root

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。

terminatornoun/ˈtɜː.mɪ.neɪ.tə/

  • 1

    Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.

  • 2

    computingengineeringmathematicsA text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.

  • 3

    astronomynatural-sciencesThe line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.

    • Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described – and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo's imaginary crater.
    • Another view captured by Wiseman shows the Earth divided by night and day. That frontier between light and darkness is known as the terminator.
  • 4

    biochemistrybiologychemistryA DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.

  • 5

    businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityAn electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.

  • 6

    literaturemediapublishingAn intelligent android created to destroy humans.

    • Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

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。