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Yesterday was MacMansion, Today is Short-Circuit
G to the power of infinity... ... We just had CLL, it was SO exciting... ...
We had to explain “短路” (short circuit)... ...
Short circuit (短路): 《現代漢語詞典》:
- 電路中電勢不同的兩點直接踫接或被阻抗(或電阻)非常小的導體接通時的情況。發生短路時電流強度很大,往往損壞電氣設備或引起火災。
- <方言>:攔路搶劫
Oxford dic: Short circuit [noun] an electrical circuit in a device of lower resistance than that of a normal circuit, typically resulting from the unintended contact of components and consequent accidental diversion of the current. [verb] (short-circuit) (with reference to an electrical device) malfunction or fail or cause to do this as a result of a short circuit across it: [no OBJ.] the birds caused the electricity supply to short-circuit [with OBJ.] water had leaked into the washing machine's motor, short-circuiting it. [with OBJ.] figurative shorten (a process or activity) by using a more direct (but often improper) method: the normal processes of a democracy should not be short-circuited. My version: "Short diao" / "Siao diao" 思想短路:... ... [4分]
馬騮 bitched at 9/25/2007 04:46:00 pm
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