function
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['fʌŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n'fʌŋkʃən]
- 美式音标 [ˈfʌŋk.ʃən]
- 国际音标 ['fʌŋkʃən]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.职务；功能；函数；重大聚会；应变量，有相关关系者；取决于
- vi.运行；起作用
词源解说
- 16世纪30年代进入英语，直接源自中古法语的fonction；最初源自拉丁语的functio，意为成绩，执行。
词根记忆
- “放颗心”→公务员的职责就是让人民放心→职责
- funct(活动) + ion→有活动能力→功能
同根派生
- adj性质的同根词
- functional：功能的。
- functionalist：机能主义的；实用主义的。
- adv性质的同根词
- functionally：功能地；函数地；职务上地。
- n性质的同根词
- functionality：功能；[数]泛函性，函数性。
- functionalism：机能主义；[心理]机能心理学；实用第一主义。
- functionalist：机能主义者；实用主义者。
用法辨析
- function作名词时，指正式的社交集会，常与at连用。He first met her at a social function. 他在一次社交集会上第一次见到她。
- function作名词，可以指人的“职责”或物的“功能”。The function of a policeman is to preserve law and order. 警察的职责是维护法律和治安。The function of a clock is to tell the time. 钟表的功能是报时。
英汉例句
- They have the functions and powers in their hands.
他们手里掌握着职权。 - The phone didn't function at all.
这电话根本不能用。
用作名词 (n.)
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)
词组短语
- abuse one 's function 滥用职权
- attend a function 出席社交聚会
- discharge one 's function 尽职
- exercise 〔fulfil〕 function 行使职责
- impair 〔increase〕 the function 削弱〔提高〕功能
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
英英字典
- (PURPOSE) the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of a person)
- (CEREMONY) an official ceremony or a formal social event, such as a party or a special meal, at which a lot of people are usually present
- (WORK) the way in which something works or operates
- (COMPUTER) a process that a computer or a computer program uses to complete a task
- (RESULT) something that results from something else, or is the way it is because of something else
- (VALUE) (in mathematics) a quantity whose value depends on another value and changes with that value
- to work or operate
- The function of something or someone is the useful thing that they do or are intended to do.
- A function is a large formal dinner or party.
- If a machine or system is functioning, it is working or operating.
- If someone or something functions as a particular thing, they do the work or fulfil the purpose of that thing.
剑桥英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 功能
- 机能
- 官能;函数
- 功能
- 函数
- 作用
- 函数