- 1無所不在的、到處都是的、隨處可見的。
If something is ubiquitous, it seems to be everywhere at once — you find it wherever you go, so you stop even noticing it. It is a formal, rather word, but people do use it in a light, joking way: 'the ubiquitous smartphone', 'her ubiquitous black hat'. That joking use is worth watching, because it often carries a small complaint or a smile: the thing turns up so often that it has become a bit much. Strictly, 'ubiquitous' should mean present in every place, but in real use it usually means only 'very common, seen everywhere you look' — nobody thinks 7-Eleven is literally in every single spot in when they call it ubiquitous. It describes things, not people, most of the time; when it does describe a person, it is a joke about someone who shows up at every event. Grammar note: it goes before a noun or after 'be' ('Coffee shops are ubiquitous here'), and it has no comparative in careful writing — 'more ubiquitous' is common in speech but sounds odd to some readers, since everywhere is already everywhere. The noun is 'ubiquity' and the adverb is 'ubiquitously'.
From the word’s history
ubiquity + -ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque 'everywhere'.
由 ubiquity 加 -ous,源自拉丁文 ubīque「到處」。
組成From Latin ubique, 'everywhere', which is ubi 'where' plus -que 'each, ever'. English took it through Medieval Latin ubiquitas and added -ous, the ending that turns a noun into an adjective (danger → dangerous).
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- ubiquitythe noun form — the state of being everywhere
- ubiquitouslythe adverb, ubiquitous + -ly
原始詞典資料3 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。
ubiquitousadj/juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/
- 1
Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
- In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous.
- 2
Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
- One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.
- There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
- 3
Widespread; very prevalent.
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