核心畫面

Picture a straight line drawn across a page, with marks along it: 1895 here, 1912 there, this event before that one. A timeline can be thought of as time laid out flat in front of you, so that things you can only live through one moment at a time become something you can see all at once, in order, with the gaps between them visible. Point that line backwards and it shows what happened; point it forwards and the same line becomes a plan.

可以想成紙上畫著一條直線,上面標了幾個點:這裡是 1895,那裡是 1912,這件事在那件事前面。timeline 更多收起可以想成紙上畫著一條直線,上面標了幾個點:這裡是 1895,那裡是 1912,這件事在那件事前面。timeline 的畫面可以想成「把時間攤平擺在眼前」——時間本來只能一刻一刻地過,畫成一條線之後,就變成可以一眼看完的東西:什麼先、什麼後、中間隔了多久,全都看得見。這條線指向過去,看到的就是發生過的事;把同一條線指向未來,它就變成一份計畫。

原始詞典資料6 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。

timelinenoun/ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/

  • 1

    A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future).

    • But, as things stand, there's no timeline in place for reopening.
    • Just look at my timeline: Tom Jones, Tiny Tim, KISS, Tenacious D, John Wick (Jack Flick), Caesar of Planet of the Apes fame, Sebastian Maniscalco, "Elegant" Elliot Offen (see Howard Stern) ... the list is endless.
  • 2

    The feed of a social media service, especially when ordered chronologically.

    • Your Timeline is essentially your home base on Facebook, the place where all your Facebook friends can view your information and activity.
    • I got bitches askin' me about the code for the Wi-Fi / So they can talk about they timeline / And show me pictures of they friends
  • 3

    A schedule of activities; a timetable.

    • “Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile,” said Adio Dinika, who studies the labor behind AI at the Distributed AI Research Institute, about people who work behind the scenes.
  • 4

    An individual universe or reality, especially a parallel/alternate one in which events differ from actual history, or differ from the established canon of a fictional world.

    • on an alternate timeline
    • worst timeline

timelineverb/ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/

  • 1

    To analyse a sequence of events or activities.

  • 2

    To display such a sequence graphically.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。