time-sharing

time-sharing — 名詞

1. a system in which several people jointly own or rent a holiday home and each per

1.名詞B2
釋義

分時渡假

多人輪流使用渡假住所

a system in which several people jointly own or rent a holiday home and each person or family uses it for a fixed period every year

例句

The Garcia family bought a time-sharing arrangement at a beach resort in Cancún.

Garcia 一家人在坎昆的海灘度假村買了一份分時渡假方案。

time-sharing arrangement at [place]

Many retired couples use time-sharing to spend winters in warmer states without buying a second home.

許多退休夫婦利用分時渡假，在較溫暖的州度過冬季，而無需購買第二個家。

同義詞
  • timeshare

    One-word form, more common in American English for the same concept; 'time-sharing' emphasises the arrangement system.

用法筆記

Often used attributively (time-sharing contract, time-sharing plan) to describe the legal or financial agreement.

常見錯誤

❌We bought a time-sharing in the mountains last year.
✅We bought into a time-sharing arrangement in the mountains last year.
💡'Time-sharing' is not a countable noun; use a phrase like 'time-sharing arrangement' or 'timeshare' instead.

2. a method of operating a large central computer so that many people at different

2.名詞B2
釋義

分時作業

多用戶同時使用中央主機

a method of operating a large central computer so that many people at different terminals can use it at the same time, each getting a tiny fraction of the processor's attention in rapid rotation

例句

In the 1970s, university students accessed research databases through a time-sharing system on the mainframe.

在 1970 年代，大學生透過主機上的分時作業系統查詢研究資料庫。

time-sharing system + mainframe

The engineers developed a time-sharing operating system that let fifty users log in from separate offices.

工程師開發了一套分時作業系統，讓五十位使用者可以從各自的辦公室同時登入。

同義詞
  • multi-user system

    Broader modern term; does not imply the rapid-rotation processor-sharing method specifically.

反義詞
  • batch processing

    An earlier method where jobs were run one after another without interactive user access.

用法筆記

Primarily a historical computing term; the concept has been absorbed into modern multi-user operating systems and cloud computing.

常見錯誤

❌I use time-sharing on my laptop every day.
✅I use a multi-user operating system on my laptop every day.
💡Modern personal computers do not require time-sharing; the term refers to a specific 1960s–1980s mainframe method.