核心畫面
Picture a stock of words that someone can reach for — like a toolbox you carry around. What is in the box is what you can build with; what is missing, you cannot say. From that one picture the word stretches in two directions: whose stock it is (one person's, a whole language's, one field's), and what counts as a 'word' (real words, but also an artist's moves or a dancer's steps).
可以想成一個人身上帶著的「字的庫存」，像隨身的一箱工具：箱子裡有的，你就講得出來；箱子裡沒有的，你就卡住。這個畫面往…更多收起
可以想成一個人身上帶著的「字的庫存」，像隨身的一箱工具：箱子裡有的，你就講得出來；箱子裡沒有的，你就卡住。這個畫面往兩邊延伸——一邊是「這箱子是誰的」（一個人的、一整個語言的、某個行業的），另一邊是「什麼算一個字」（真的字，也可以是畫家的筆法、舞者的動作）。原始詞典資料5 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。
vocabularynoun/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
- 1
A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
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The collection of words a person knows and uses.
- My Russian vocabulary is very limited.
- 3
The stock of words used in a particular field.
- The vocabulary of social sciences is often incomprehensible to ordinary people.
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The words of a language collectively; lexis.
- The vocabulary of any language is influenced by contacts with other cultures.
- Vocabulary provides a foundation from which grammar, phonology, and morphology emerge, and in a subject area it provides access to conceptual knowledge. Vocabulary selection for pedagogical purposes is therefore crucial.
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A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques.
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。