音标:['saifә] ;
n. 零, 暗号, 密码, 无用的东西, 阿拉伯数字
v. 计算, 做算术
n. a message written in a secret code
n. a person of no influence
n. a secret method of writing
词型变化:名词复数形式 : ciphers ; 过去式 : ciphered ; 现在分词 : ciphering ; 第三人称单数 : ciphers ; 过去分词 : ciphered
考试类型:[托福/GRE]
词性分布:
名词83%
动词17%

cipher的用法和样例:

例句

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。

词汇搭配

  • cipher key密码电报注解,密码索...
  • autokey cipher自密钥密码
  • random cipher随机密码
  • cipher mask密码消隐
  • stream cipher流密码
  • permutation cipher置换密码
  • cipher device密码装置
  • cipher feedback密码反馈
  • cipher text密码正文
  • cipher code密码
  • substitution cipher代换密码,代用密码,...
  • cipher message密码电报
  • transposition cipher移位密码
  • standard cipher标准密码
  • pure cipher纯密码
  • additive cipher加性密码
  • cipher officer大使馆中之密码翻译员...
  • affine cipher仿射密码
  • block cipher分组密码
  • cipher in algorism零

经典引文

  • He was..a cipher in the home.

    出自:P. G. Wodehouse
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