喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture two machines talking to each other with no cable joining them — the message just flies across the empty air on radio . 'Wireless' literally says it: without (less) wires.

可以想成兩台機器之間沒有任何電線相連，訊息直接乘著無線電波，從空中飛過去到另一邊。這個字拆開來看就是 wire（電線…更多收起可以想成兩台機器之間沒有任何電線相連，訊息直接乘著無線電波，從空中飛過去到另一邊。這個字拆開來看就是 wire（電線）＋ less（沒有），字面就是「沒有電線」的意思——這個畫面同時撐起形容詞和名詞的全部用法。

原始詞典資料6 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。

wirelessadj/ˈwaɪə.ləs/

  • 1

    Not having any wires.

  • 2

    Functioning without an external wired connection.

    • wireless headphones
    • wireless charging

wirelessnoun/ˈwaɪə.ləs/

  • 1

    The medium of radio communication.

    • Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.
    • It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
  • 2

    computingengineeringmathematicsA wireless connectivity to a computer network.

    • If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.
  • 3

    datedA radio set.

    • Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.
    • I heard you on my wireless back in '52

wirelessverb/ˈwaɪə.ləs/

  • 1

    obsoletedatedTo send (a message) by wireless or radio.

    • At 3:30 A.M. a huge Zeppelin flew across the British battle line, wirelessing down to any Germans still to the westward the best way to get home.
    • Just outside Piraeus we circled low over a capsized fishing-boat, a grisly wreck in the crystal blue water, and wirelessed a description of it to the mainland.

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。