alias
/ˈeɪ.li.əs/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈeɪ.li.əs/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈā-lē-əs ˈāl-yəs/ (ame, mw) · /ˈeɪliəs/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈeɪliəs/ (ame, ipa)
alias — 介系詞
1. placed between someone's real name and the other name they are widely known by,
又名；別稱
用於本名與其他名字之間
placed between someone's real name and the other name they are widely known by, especially in news reports, biographies, or police records.
The court named the suspect as Mark Reynolds, alias 'the Fox'.
法庭指認嫌犯為馬克．雷諾茲，又名「狐狸」。
[real name] alias [nickname] in formal/legal context
Samuel Clemens, alias Mark Twain, wrote his most famous novels in Hartford.
賽繆爾．克萊門斯，又名馬克．吐溫，在哈特福寫下他最知名的小說。
linking real name to pen name
The wanted poster listed Diego Morales, alias 'Slim Diego', as armed and dangerous.
通緝海報上列出迪亞哥．莫拉萊斯，別稱「瘦子迪亞哥」，並標示有武裝、極度危險。
Police arrested Xander Park, alias Susan Choi, at the airport on Tuesday.
警方週二在機場逮捕了莉娜．朴，又名蘇珊．崔。
- aka
informal abbreviation, common in casual writing
- otherwise known as
neutral phrase used in the same slot
文法句型
[real name] alias [other name]
用法筆記
Sits between two noun phrases, never at the start of a clause. Distinguish from the noun sense by position: here it joins two names; the noun sense takes a determiner ('an alias', 'his alias').
常見錯誤
alias — 名詞
1. a different name that someone uses instead of their own — typically a criminal h
化名；別名
為隱藏身分而使用的名字
a different name that someone uses instead of their own — typically a criminal hiding from police, a writer publishing under a pen name, or a person staying anonymous online.
The con artist booked every hotel room under a different alias.
那名騙徒每次訂飯店房間都用不同的化名。
under + alias for hidden identity
Detective Mori discovered that the suspect had used four aliases since 2018.
森探員發現嫌犯自2018年以來已使用過四個化名。
countable: aliases plural
The novelist Jiang Wen writes her crime stories under the alias 'J. W. Black'.
小說家蔣文以「J. W. Black」這個筆名發表她的犯罪小說。
Many gamers prefer to use an alias instead of their real name on chat servers.
許多玩家在聊天伺服器上寧願用化名而不是本名。
The undercover agent in Berlin went by the alias Karl Bauer for two years.
那位在柏林的臥底探員以「卡爾．鮑爾」這個化名活動了兩年。
- real name
the legal name on official documents
文法句型
use an alias
under the alias [name]
go by the alias [name]
用法筆記
Countable, normally takes a determiner ('an alias', 'her alias', 'this alias'). Carries a hint of secrecy or concealment, unlike neutral 'pen name' or 'username'.
常見錯誤
2. in computing, a short label that points to a longer thing — for example a deskto
別名；捷徑
電腦中指向檔案、指令或地址的短標籤
in computing, a short label that points to a longer thing — for example a desktop link to a file, a typed shortcut for a command, or a forwarding address that delivers mail to a real inbox.
Aiko created an alias on her Mac desktop so she could open the report folder with one click.
愛子在Mac桌面上建立了一個別名，這樣她點一下就能打開報告資料夾。
alias for a file or folder shortcut
The office computer shows the shared drive under a friendly alias called 'Team Files' instead of its long server address.
辦公室電腦上的共用磁碟以一個易記的別名「Team Files」顯示，取代那一長串伺服器位址。
alias as a friendly label for a longer address
Our team uses the email alias [email protected], which forwards to three real inboxes.
我們團隊使用 [email protected] 這個電子郵件別名，會自動轉寄到三個實際信箱。
If you delete the original file, the alias on your desktop becomes useless.
如果你刪掉原始檔案，桌面上的別名就沒有用了。
文法句型
create an alias
set up an alias for [target]
用法筆記
Tech sense — distinguish from sense 1 by context: this alias points to data or a command, not to a person. Common verbs are 'create', 'set up', 'define', and 'remove'.
常見錯誤
alias — 副詞
1. in legal records, archives, and older biographies, written WITHOUT commas direct
又稱為
正式或古體用法，接於姓名之後
in legal records, archives, and older biographies, written WITHOUT commas directly after a person's first name to mark a second name they were also recorded under — distinct from the modern preposition use, which sets the second name off with commas.
The defendant was listed in the records as Edward Hyde alias Henry Jekyll.
被告在紀錄上被列為愛德華．海德又稱為亨利．傑奇爾。
[name] alias [other name] in records
An old document named the merchant Thomas Wright alias Tom the Tailor of Bristol.
一份古老文件記載了商人湯瑪斯．萊特又稱為布里斯托的「裁縫湯姆」。
Court rolls from 1670 mention Anne Carter alias Anne Bell, born in Surrey.
1670年的法庭卷宗提到安．卡特又稱為安．貝爾，出生於薩里郡。
The biography lists the spy as Colonel Reeves alias the Cobra throughout the war years.
這本傳記在整個戰爭年代都將那名間諜記為里夫斯上校又名「眼鏡蛇」。
- aka
modern informal equivalent; far more frequent today
文法句型
[name] alias [other name]
用法筆記
Largely confined to legal records, biographies, and historical writing. In modern speech and journalism, the preposition slot (with comma) or the abbreviation 'aka' is far more common.