cipher
pronunciation
UK [ˈsaɪfə(r)]
US [ˈsaɪfər]
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- n.
- 密码
- 零
- 不重要的人
- 无价值的东西
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- vt.
- 用密码书写
Word Origin
cipher 密码
来自阿拉伯语sifr,零，词源同zero.因为古人早期对数字零的认识不足，该词逐渐被赋予神秘 色彩，词义也由零引申为密码。
Example
- 1. In short , murakami in japan is a commercially successful cipher .
- 简而言之，在日本的村上春树是一个在商业上很成功密码。
- 2. And the engineer is no robotic cipher , but a very human enemy .
- 这个工程师不是机器密码，而却是人类的敌人。
- 3. We could penetrate her solicitude to cipher the problem .
- 我们能看出她急于解决这个问题。
- 4. The letter was written in cipher .
- 这封信是用密码写的。
- 5. Dissatisfied with such makeshift methods , louis braille , a student at the royal institute for blind youth in paris , began studying a cipher language of bumps , called night writing , developed by a french army officer so soldiers could send messages in the dark .
- 巴黎的盲人青少年皇家学院一名叫路易斯布莱叶学生，对这种替代的阅读方法十分不满意，开始学习一种凸点密码语言“夜书”，这种方法是一名法国军官发明的，让士兵们能在黑暗中传递情报。
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