- 1（形容詞）交鑰匙的、立即可用的。商業上常說「turnkey 方案」＝一切都設定好、買家接手就能直接用，中文常翻「統包」「交鑰匙工程」。
Turnkey describes something that is finished and ready to use the moment you get it — you do nothing but turn the key and start, the way you get into a car and drive away. It is business English, and it sits in front of a noun: a turnkey system, a turnkey solution, a turnkey factory, a turnkey operation. The point is always that the seller did all the setting up, so the buyer has no work left: no installing, no configuring, no hiring, no waiting. Companies love the word because it sells the promise of no trouble, so you meet it a lot in advertising and in contracts, and you should read it the way you read any sales word — the seller is telling you it will be easy, not proving it. There is an older, separate meaning: a turnkey used to be a person, the guard in a prison who carried the keys and turned them in the locks. That sense is old-fashioned now and you will mostly meet it in novels about the past, but it explains the picture inside the word.
組成turn + key — literally 'turn the key'. The picture is of a person who turns a key: first the jailer who turns the key in the prison lock, later the buyer who turns the key and the whole thing simply starts working.
同家族的字
- turnstileanother turn- compound naming a thing by the movement it makes
原始詞典資料4 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。
turnkeyadj/ˈtɜː(ɹ)nˌkiː/
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Ready to use without further assembly or test; supplied in a state that is ready to turn on and operate (typically refers to an assembly that is outsourced for manufacture).
- They wanted a turnkey solution for the entire system, but we could only provide the enclosure.
- Third World countries no longer want to purchase nuclear projects on a turn-key basis; they want to receive advanced technical training as well.
turnkeynoun/ˈtɜː(ɹ)nˌkiː/
- 1
A system that is supplied ready to switch on and operate.
- The hardware-software costs are packaged together. Turnkeys are either special purpose (e.g., only for one function such as libraries) or general purpose […]
- 2
datedA warder or jailer; a keeper of the keys in a prison.
- He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition.
- […]they passed through an open door into a lobby, from which a heavy gate, opposite to that by which they had entered, and which was guarded by a stout turnkey with the key in his hand, led at once into the interior of the prison.
turnkeyverb/ˈtɜː(ɹ)nˌkiː/
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To supply a turnkey product; to supply something fully assembled and ready to use.
- We can sell you all the parts, or we can turnkey the entire unit.
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。