核心畫面
You can picture 'times' as the word that stacks a number up in copies: '3 times 4' means take 4 and lay down 3 copies of it. The same idea works whether you just say it (a preposition, 'three times four') or do it as an action (a verb, 'to times a number').
可以想成：times 就是「把一個數疊上好幾份」的字——「3 times 4」就是拿 4 來，疊出 3 份。不管你只…更多收起
可以想成：times 就是「把一個數疊上好幾份」的字——「3 times 4」就是拿 4 來，疊出 3 份。不管你只是把它說出來（介係詞，three times four），還是把它當成一個動作去做（動詞，to times a number），背後都是同一個「乘」的畫面。原始詞典資料8 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。
Timesname
- 1
journalismmedianewspapersA common name (often in combination) for a newspaper or periodical, especially The Times (published in the United Kingdom), but also The New York Times, The Times of India, Radio Times, etc.
- Mr. Campion seated himself in the client’s chair and crossed his long legs. His hat, his gloves and his folded Times newspaper he held upon his knee.
- From there, the meme will slowly leak into more popular mainstream-right punditry, and then into the Republican Party, until Ted Cruz sweatily asks a judicial nominee if they “support the current thing” and the Times writes some stilted, breathless article about the meme as disinformation.
- 2
A surname.
timesnoun/taɪmz/
- 1
The circumstances of a certain time.
- Modern times are so very different from the past.
- The city called Fan-yang in Eastern Han times can be identified with the present village of Ch’u-wang (Nei-huang County, Honan Province).
- 2
A person's experiences or biography.
- The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.
timesprep/taɪmz/
- 1
mathematicssciencesMultiplied by (see also 'ratio of comparison' sense at 'time').
- Four times five is/are twenty
- One times one is one.
timesverb/taɪmz/
- 1
informalarithmeticTo multiply.
- I've taken the calories and the amount of food . . . and it's 410 calories per portion timesed by 6 portions which ^([sic]) the answer was 2460 calories...
- A student as junior as Year 4 informed me that he made a forward estimate of cheeses in 100 trials by 'timesing both numbers by 10' […]
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。