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cipher

英['saɪfə(r)] 美['saɪfər]
  • n. 密码;阿拉伯数字;零;暗号
  • v. 计算;做算术;将 ... 写成密码
ciphered ciphered ciphering ciphers
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详细释义

Noun:
  1. a message written in a secret code

  2. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

  3. a quantity of no importance;

    "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"
    "reduced to nil all the work we had done"
    "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"
    "it was all for naught"
    "I didn't hear zilch about it"

  4. a person of no influence

  5. a secret method of writing

Verb:
  1. convert ordinary language into code;

    "We should encode the message for security reasons"

  2. make a mathematical calculation or computation

双语例句

1. a message in cipher
密码信

来自《权威词典》

2. All important plans were sent to the police in cipher.
所有重要计划均以密码送往警方.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3. It's a telegram in cipher.
这是密码电报.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. He's a mere cipher in the company.
他在公司里是个无足轻重的小人物.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. I couldn't cipher out his motives.
我猜不出他的动机.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

    用作名词 (n.)
    1. The army uses a special cipher so that military messages are kept secret.
      军队使用一种特殊密码,军事电讯因此得以保密。
    2. The cipher took me three weeks before I hit it.
      我费了3个多星期才把这密码解释出来。
    3. Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
      年龄只是个阿拉伯数字。一个人不能让他的经验退休。他必须用它。依靠经验,可以用较少的精力和时间获得更多。
    用作动词 (v.)
    1. I couldn't cipher out why she was there.
      我搞不清她为什么会在那儿。
    2. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.
      他四十岁进学校,学习了读,写,算。

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