• n. 纜繩；電纜；海底電報
• vt. 打電報
• vi. 打海底電報

來自詞根cap, 抓，拿，握，詞源同accept, capture. 原指抓動物的繩索。

cable

cable: [13] The ultimate source of cable is late Latin capulum ‘lasso’, a derivative of the verb capere ‘take, seize’, either directly or perhaps via Arabic habl. In Proven?al, capulum became cable, which produced the Old French form chable: so English must either have borrowed the word straight from Proven?al, or from *cable, an unrecorded Anglo-Norman variant of the Old French word.
=> capture, heave

cable (n.)

c. 1200, from Old North French cable, from Medieval Latin capulum "lasso, rope, halter for cattle," from Latin capere "to take, seize" (see capable). Technically, in nautical use, a rope 10 or more inches around, to hold the ship when at anchor; in non-nautical use, a rope of wire (not hemp or fiber). Given a new range of senses in 19c.: Meaning "message received by telegraphic cable" is from 1883 (short for cable message). Cable car is from 1879. Cable television first attested 1963; shortened form cable is from 1972.

cable (v.)

c. 1500, "to tie up with cables;" 1871, American English, "to transmit by cable;" from cable (n.). Related: Cabled; cabling.

1. These strands of molecules twine around each other to form cable-like structures.

這些分子鏈彼此纏繞，形成纜線狀的結構。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Steel cable will be used to replace worn ropes.

將用鋼纜替換磨損的繩索。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The cable-TV and health-care industries are both being mauled by government.

有線電視和保健業正在遭受政府的嚴厲批評。

來自柯林斯例句

4. In half an hour, they'd switched the tags on every cable.

半個小時內，他們就給每根電纜都換了標簽。

來自柯林斯例句

5. China has almost 15 million subscribers to satellite and cable television.

中國有將近1,500萬衛星電視和有線電視用戶。

來自柯林斯例句