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/θərˈmɑːmɪtər/ · /θəˈmɒmɪtə/
A piece of equipment that measures temperature — how hot or cold something is, such as the air outside, your body, or food you are cooking.
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Picture a thin glass tube with numbers up the side, and a line inside that creeps up when things get hot and sinks when they get cold. Heat is something you can only feel — the thermometer turns that feeling into a number you can say out loud and compare.
一根細細的管子，旁邊刻著數字，裡面那條線遇熱就往上爬、遇冷就縮下去。冷熱本來只能「感覺」，一個人說好熱、另一個人說還…更多收起
一根細細的管子，旁邊刻著數字，裡面那條線遇熱就往上爬、遇冷就縮下去。冷熱本來只能「感覺」，一個人說好熱、另一個人說還好，誰也說不準；溫度計把這個感覺變成一個可以講出口、可以互相比較的數字。所以它出現在該精確的地方：夾在腋下量體溫、插進烤箱裡的肉、掛在窗外看今天幾度。原始詞典資料1 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。
thermometernoun/θəˈmɒm.ɪ.tə/
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An apparatus used to measure temperature.
- Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
- On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]
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。