channel

詞型變化：

名詞:channeler 動詞過去式:channeled,channelled 過去分詞:channeled,channelled 現在分詞:channeling,channelling 第三人稱單數:channels,channels 　

詞意辨析：

channel, strait

這兩個名詞均含“海峽”之意。
channel: 指比strait長而寬的海峽。
strait: 指短而窄的海峽。常用複數形式但作單數用。

英文解釋：

名詞 channel:

1. a path over which electrical signals can pass
   同義詞：transmission channel
2. a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
3. a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
   同義詞：groove
4. a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
5. (often plural) a means of communication or access
   同義詞：communication channel, line
6. a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
   同義詞：duct, epithelial duct, canal
7. a television station and its programs
   同義詞：television channel, TV channel
8. a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
   同義詞：distribution channel

動詞 channel:

1. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
   同義詞：conduct, transmit, convey, carry
2. direct the flow of
   同義詞：canalize, canalise
3. send from one person or place to another
   同義詞：transmit, transfer, transport, channelize, channelise

 

相關對話：

1. This channel comes on the air every morning at 7 am.
   這個頻道每天早晨7點鐘開始播放。
2. Ships must follow the channel into the port.
   船隻必須沿航道進入港口。