劍橋字典 comet 的說明:an object that moves around the sun, usually at a great distance from it, that is seen on rare occasions from the earth as a bright line in the sky.
問:常見在很多網站的網址都會有zh-tw或zh-cn,雖然可以猜到zh-tw是指台灣正體中文、zh-cn是中國大陸簡體中文,但zh到底是什麼的縮寫呢? 答:zh是 zh ong wen的縮寫,zhong wen就是「中文」的發音啦。 zh這麼常用其實也是有原因的,因為它是 ISO 639-1 中定義的代碼,既然是國際標準,當然大部分網站就會遵循囉!
asl就是age, sex, location 試試看在msn打(asl),會看到一個(ASL?)的表情符號唷(不過新版的msn好像移除掉那個圖示了...) 如果在網路聊天室會蠻常看到這個字的 幾乎兩個人對話前三句就會出現 例如: Bruce: hi Mary Mary: hello Bruce: :) Mary: your asl? Bruce: I'm 20...male... come from Taiwan. and you? Mary: Im .... 有趣的是,asl在Second life這款遊戲中很少出現 雖然這是個社交導向的網路遊戲,但每位玩家都是以avatar來表現,而且很多人都是以逃避現實生活的心理來玩Second life的,因此通常不會開頭就asl,頂多是問location avatar a movable icon representing a person in cyberspace or virtual reality graphics.(牛津英英字典) 用一個會移動的icon圖示來表現一個人,在虛擬世界中。 指在虛擬實境中互動地呈現一個人(yahoo字典)
雖然在中文都是對講機,但是在英文裡大樓用的對講機跟無線電對講機 通常用不同的單字。 Pic CC-BY-NC 2.0 by nicolasnova 大樓對講機 (其實也不一定是大樓對講機,例如捷運上緊急跟駕駛艙通話的對講機,官方也是用intercom這個字) intercom interphone talkback doorphone 解說 An intercom (intercommunication device), talkback or doorphone is a stand-alone voice communications system for use within a building or small collection of buildings, functioning independently of the public telephone network. ( wikipedia ) a set of communications devices that allows people in different parts of a building, aircraft, ship, etc., to speak to each other. ( cambridge dictionary ) Pic CC-BY-NC 2.0 by T Gibbison 無線電對講機 handheld transceiver (handheld=手持, transceiver=收發器) walkie talkie two-way radio 解說 A walkie-talkie (more formally known as a handheld transceiver) is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald L. Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, and engineering...