| 釋義 |
volume /'voljwm US: -jam; 'valjam/ n 1 [C] book, esp one of a set of books; number of sheets, papers, periodicals, etc bound together: 書本; (尤指一套書中的) 一部; 一卷; 一冊; (紙頁、報紙、雜志等的) 合訂本： an encyclopedia in 20 ~s. —部有二十冊的百科全書。 speak ~s for, supply strong evidence of: 充分地證明或顯示： His donations to charity speak ~s for his generosity. 他對慈善事業(yè)的捐助充分地表明他的慷慨。 2 [U] amount of space (expressed in cubic metres, etc) occupied by a substance, liquid or gas; cubic contents of a container, etc: 體積 (以立方公尺等表示者); (容器等的) 容量; 容積： the ~ of a cask; 大桶的容量; the ~ of wine in a cask. 大桶里的酒的體積。 3 [C] large mass, amount or quantity: 大量; 多量; 大宗： the ~ of business/ work, etc; 大宗交易 (大量的工作等); (esp pl) rounded masses of steam or smoke: (尤用復(fù)數(shù)) 大團的蒸氣或煙霧： ~s of black smoke belched out from the chimneys. 大量的黑煙從煙囪里目出。 4 [U] (of sound) power; sonority: (指聲音) 響度; 音量： a voice of great ~. 音量大的聲音。 Your radio has a ~ control. 你的收音機有音量控制的裝置。 |