ubiquitous 普遍存在的= omnipresent (^ omniscient, omnipotent) versatile (人)多才多藝的,(物)通用的à versatility alchemy 煉金術 transmute 變形,變質transmute silver into gold (!) arduous 艱巨的 (=strenuous)an arduous task pitfall 陷阱,未預見之困難 metallurgy 冶金 alloy 合金 aluminum = aluminium (BE)^ calcium, uranium, radium^ copper, brass, bronze electrode 電極 distill 蒸餾 distilled water quartz 石英 phosphorus 磷,磷光物質 inflammable 易燃的 (? flame) combustion 燃燒 (à combustible)spontaneous combustion (white phosphorus) ceramic 陶瓷的 瓷器 (à ceramics) insulate 隔離,絕緣à insulator (<> conductor) fiber 纖維 (BE: fibre)fiber optics (纖維光學) optics 光學 (à optical) retina 視網膜 iris 虹膜 opaque 不透明的v.s. transparent, translucent microprocessor 微處理器^ CPU(Central Processing Unit), chip binary 二進制的 integrate à integrated, integrationintegrated circuit (IC), system integration (SI) buffer 緩沖區buffer storage browser 瀏覽器 (^ IE, Netscape) hypertext 超文本 envisage 想象,看作 en + vis(see) + ageThe internet can be envisaged as a network of visual telephone links. momentous (極為)重要的v.s. momentary reticular 網狀的 Ethernet 以太網 domain 域 domain names cyberlaw 網絡法律 “cyber-“: Internet relatedcyberlove, cybercafe, … patent 專利 (à patented)v.s. copyright, ^ pirated software/VCD’s chronological 按時間順序的 “chron”: time^ chronic, chronicle, chronograph robot 機器人(“肉包它”)à robotics artificial 人造的,做作的artificial satellite/smile cone 圓錐體,錐形物the nose cone of a missile Jupiter 木星^ Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn exorbitant 過度的,過分的,過高的ex(out) + orbit + ant centripetal 向心(力)的<> centrifugal high-rise 高樓 (~ skyscraper) cathedral 大教堂 dome 圓頂 (a hemispherical roof) infrastructure 基礎設施<> superstructure sewage 污水,下水道 hydraulic 水力的,水壓的 landfill 垃圾掩埋(地) ventilation 通風 thermostat 溫控器 thermo(hot) + stat(steady)^ thermos, thermometer, thermonuclear prefabricate 預先制造à prefab (預制的) polytechnic 各種工藝的 理工學校Hong Kong Polytechnic geometric 幾何(學)的? geometry, geo(land) + metry(measure) asymmetry 不對稱 a(not) + sym(same) + metry(↑)<> symmetry concave 凹的 (<> convex) bilateral 雙邊的,兩方面的<> unilateral paradoxical “似非而是”的? paradox (悖論) empirical 經驗的empirical law/formula clockwise 順時針的 (<> anticlockwise) |