spool
/spuːl/ (bre, ipa) · [spˈul] /spuːl/ (ame, ipa) · [spˈul] /ˈspül How to pronounce spool (audio)/ (ame, mw)
spool — 名詞
- spoolsingular
- spoolsplural
1. a small reel with raised sides that keeps thread, wire, ribbon, film, or a simil
線軸；捲軸
纏繞線材或膠卷的軸
a small reel with raised sides that keeps thread, wire, ribbon, film, or a similar material wound neatly in place.
Aarav set a fresh spool of blue thread beside the sewing machine.
Aarav 把一個新的藍色線軸放在縫紉機旁。
a spool of + material
The electrician dropped the spool of copper wire under the workbench.
那名電工把那個繞著銅線的線軸掉到工作檯下。
spool of copper wire
Piotr loaded the film spool carefully before closing the camera back.
Piotr 在闔上相機背蓋前，小心裝好了膠卷捲軸。
At the craft fair, Mayumi sold ribbon by the spool, not by the metre.
在手作市集上，Mayumi 的緞帶是按線軸賣，不是按公尺賣。
文法句型
a spool of + material
用法筆記
Often appears in the pattern 'a spool of' plus the material wound around it, especially in sewing, wiring, and film contexts.
常見錯誤
spool — 動詞
- spoolpresent simple I / you / we / they
- spools3rd person singular
- spooling-ing form
- spooledpast simple
1. to wrap thread, wire, film, or a similar material around a reel-shaped holder so
捲上線軸
把材料捲繞到線軸上
to wrap thread, wire, film, or a similar material around a reel-shaped holder so it can be stored or used later.
Kian spooled the fishing line neatly after the trip to the lake.
Kian 釣完魚後，把魚線整齊地捲上線軸。
spool + line
The studio assistant spooled the microphone cable before loading the van.
錄音室助理在裝車前先把麥克風線捲上線軸。
spool + cable
Joon spooled the film in darkness before sealing the camera case.
Joon 在黑暗中把膠卷捲上線軸，再封好相機盒。
Christopher spooled the ribbon onto clean reels for the shop display.
Christopher 把緞帶捲上乾淨的捲軸，好做店裡的展示。
文法句型
spool + material
spool + material + onto + reel/spool
用法筆記
Usually takes the material as its direct object, and it often appears with an 'onto' phrase naming the reel or spool receiving it. Distinguish from sense 2: this sense is about winding a physical material, not queueing digital data.
常見錯誤
2. to place data in temporary storage before it is sent onward to a printer or anot
假脫機
先把待送裝置的資料暫存
to place data in temporary storage before it is sent onward to a printer or another device.
The server spooled each report before sending it to the office printer.
伺服器先把各份報表假脫機，再送到辦公室印表機。
spool a report before printing
Our billing system spools labels overnight, then prints them at dawn.
我們的計費系統會在夜間先假脫機標籤，天亮再列印。
spool labels overnight
When the network slowed, the laptop spooled the job to local storage.
網路變慢時，筆電先把工作假脫機到本機儲存空間。
The print room software spooled fifty invoices while the printer was offline.
印務室軟體在印表機離線時，先把五十份發票假脫機。
- stream
send the data onward continuously instead of storing the whole job first
文法句型
spool + print job/data/report
spool + data + to + local storage
用法筆記
This is a technical computing sense, most often used for print jobs or other data that is queued briefly before a device is ready to receive it.