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cube

UK /kjuːb/US /kjuːb/

词源

源自拉丁语 'cubus',来自希腊语 'kubos',意为'骰子'或'立方体'。

noun

❶ 立方体,指具有六个相同大小的正方形面的三维几何形状,常见于数学和日常物品中。

“The children played with colorful wooden cubes.”

(孩子们玩着彩色的木制立方体。)

“A sugar cube dissolved quickly in the hot tea.”

(一块方糖在热茶中迅速溶解。)

❶ 立方,数学术语,表示一个数自乘三次的结果,如2的立方是8。

“The cube of 3 is 27.”

(3的立方是27。)

“She memorized the cubes of numbers up to 10.”

(她记住了1到10的数字的立方。)

同义词:block, die, hexahedron

verb

❶ 将某物切成小方块或立方体形状,常用于烹饪或数学计算中。

“She cubed the potatoes before boiling them.”

(她把土豆切成小块后再煮。)

“The chef demonstrated how to cube meat evenly.”

(厨师演示了如何均匀地将肉切成方块。)

❶ 计算一个数的立方,即该数自乘三次。

“If you cube 4, you get 64.”

(如果你计算4的立方,结果是64。)

“The students practiced cubing numbers mentally.”

(学生们练习心算数字的立方。)

同义词:dice, cut into cubes, raise to the third power

常见短语

Rubik's cube — 魔方,一种由小立方体组成的立体拼图玩具,每个面可以旋转,目标是将所有面恢复为单一颜色。

“He solved the Rubik's cube in under a minute.”

(他在一分钟内解开了魔方。)

cube root — 立方根,数学术语,指一个数的立方等于给定值时,这个数就是给定值的立方根。

“The cube root of 125 is 5.”

(125的立方根是5。)