heating
/ˈhiːtɪŋ/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈhiːtɪŋ/ (ame, ipa)
heating — 名詞
1. the equipment and pipes inside a house, office, or other building that produce a
供暖系統
建築物內提供暖氣的設備
the equipment and pipes inside a house, office, or other building that produce and send warm air or hot water through the rooms so people feel comfortable indoors
The heating in our apartment broke down last winter, so the landlord called a repair team.
我們公寓的供暖系統去年冬天壞了，房東打電話請了維修人員來修理。
the + heating + break down — describing system failure
Élise turned the heating up because the temperature dropped below zero outside.
氣溫降到零度以下，Élise 把暖氣開大了。
turn the heating up / down — controlling the system
Before installing new heating, the Watanabe family compared prices from three different companies.
在安裝新的供暖系統之前，渡邊家比較了三家不同公司的報價。
Felix set the heating to come on at six every morning during the cold months.
Felix 設定供暖系統在寒冬期間每天早上六點自動開啟。
- central heating
a specific type of heating system with a single boiler that sends hot water through pipes to radiators in every room
- heating system
a more explicit and formal way to refer to the same thing, often used in technical contexts
- air conditioning
a system that cools a building rather than warming it
- cooling system
any system designed to lower indoor temperature, the functional opposite of heating
文法句型
the + heating
possessive + heating
heating + verb (breaks down / comes on / goes off)
用法筆記
Heating is an uncountable noun — you cannot say 'a heating' or 'heatings'. It refers to the entire system in a building. A single device that produces heat is called a heater (e.g., an electric heater in one room). A specific type of whole-building system is central heating, which uses one main heat source (a boiler) to warm the entire building.