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In this sense 'a turbo' is a car — a car with a engine. Car people talk this way: 'He drives a turbo', 'It's the turbo, not the standard model'. It is casual, spoken, a bit enthusiast-ish; you would see it in a car magazine or hear it from someone who loves cars, and it often appears on the back of the car itself as a badge.
In this sense在這個意思裡,'a turbo''a turbo' is a car指的是一輛車——a car with a turbocharged engine一輛裝了渦輪增壓引擎的車。Car people talk this way車迷會這樣說:'He drives a turbo'「He drives a turbo」、'It's the turbo, not the standard model'「It's the turbo, not the standard model」。It is casual, spoken, a bit enthusiast-ish它很口語、很隨性,帶點車迷的味道;you would see it in a car magazine or hear it from someone who loves cars你會在車雜誌上看到它,或從愛車的人口中聽到,and it often appears on the back of the car itself as a badge它也常常以車標的形式出現在車尾。
, 'turbo' is also used by the same people for the part itself — 'the turbo went bad', 'you can hear the turbo up' — so which one is meant depends on the sentence.
Confusingly讓人搞混的是,'turbo' is also used by the same people for the turbocharger part itself同樣這群人也會用「turbo」指渦輪增壓器這個零件本身——'the turbo went bad', 'you can hear the turbo spooling up'「the turbo went bad」、「you can hear the turbo spooling up」——so which one is meant depends on the sentence所以指的是哪一個,要看句子而定。
And it lives a third life as a word meaning 'extra powerful, extra fast', stuck onto other words half-jokingly: turbo mode, turbo button, turbo speed. That last use has spread far beyond cars, into games and software and everyday , though actually it usually just means 'the fast setting' and has nothing to do with any real turbine.
And it lives a third life as a word meaning 'extra powerful, extra fast'它還有第三種用法,意思是「特別強、特別快」,stuck onto other words half-jokingly半開玩笑地黏在其他字前面:turbo mode, turbo button, turbo speedturbo mode、turbo button、turbo speed。That last use has spread far beyond cars, into games and software and everyday exaggeration這最後一種用法已經遠遠超出了車子的範圍,進到遊戲、軟體,還有日常的誇張說法裡,though actually it usually just means 'the fast setting'不過實際上它通常就只是「比較快的設定」,and has nothing to do with any real turbine跟真正的渦輪機沒有任何關係。
組成turbo 是 turbine 縮短來的,也是 turbocharged / turbocharger 砍短後留下的頭。根源同樣是拉丁文 turbō「旋轉」。
同家族的字
- turbinethe full word turbo was cut down from; a turbocharger contains one
- turbochargerthe part itself, which 'turbo' also stands for in speech
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。
turbonoun詞源 1/ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
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informalA turbine.
turbonoun詞源 2/ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
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video-gamesAutofire.
- Controllers with turbo features are banned from most competitive tournaments.
turboadj詞源 2/ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
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With rapidly-increasing blind levels.
- This is a turbo tournament: the blinds increase every 5 minutes! Level 1 = 150/300; level 2 = 200/400; etc.
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computingengineeringmathematicsCausing or relating to increased speed.
- a turbo button on a controller; a PC equipped with a turbo mode
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informalVery, super, etc.; usually relating to a qualitative value (as opposed to quantitative).
- They act turbo wasted when they have more than a few beers in them.
turboverb詞源 2/ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
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video-gamesTo autofire.
turbonoun詞源 3/ˈtɜː.bəʊ/
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biologymalacologynatural-sciencesA turban shell.
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。