cipher
英 [ˈsaɪfə(r)]
美 [ˈsaɪfər]
n. 密码; 暗号; 无足轻重的人; 无关紧要的东西; (姓名首字母的)拼合字，花押
复数：ciphers 过去式：ciphered 现在分词：ciphering 第三人称单数：ciphers 过去分词：ciphered
BNC.22793 / COCA.22546
同义词辨析
zeron. 零；零度；零点；零分
〔辨析〕
普通用词，一般用于表示数字、数量、刻度、比分、电话号码等；表示概率、程度等时，常指微乎其微或根本没有。
〔例证〕
If x is zero, y must be 2.
如果x为零，y肯定是2。
It was 18 degrees below zero.
气温是零下18度。
We won the football game with a score of 4 to zero.
我们以4比0的比分赢得了这场足球比赛。
My chances of winning are almost zero.
我获胜的机会几乎为零。
如果x为零，y肯定是2。
It was 18 degrees below zero.
气温是零下18度。
We won the football game with a score of 4 to zero.
我们以4比0的比分赢得了这场足球比赛。
My chances of winning are almost zero.
我获胜的机会几乎为零。
ciphern. 〈文〉零；不重要的人
〔辨析〕
指数字0或0至9的任何一个阿拉伯数字，强调数字概念；引申则指无足轻重的人。
〔例证〕
reliable ciphers
可靠性数字
223344 is a number of 6 ciphers.
223344是一个6位数。
One followed by two ciphers is 100.
1的后面跟两个0是100。
He's a mere cipher in the committee.
他在委员会里不过是个无名小卒。
可靠性数字
223344 is a number of 6 ciphers.
223344是一个6位数。
One followed by two ciphers is 100.
1的后面跟两个0是100。
He's a mere cipher in the committee.
他在委员会里不过是个无名小卒。
niln. 〈英〉零；无
〔辨析〕
多指体育比赛中的比分，或用于认知、价值等程度，常可与 zero 换用。
〔例证〕
Our team won by three goals to nil/zero.
我们队以3比0获胜。
His knowledge of the subject is practically nil/zero.
他在这方面的知识几乎是零。
Their new device reduced labour costs to almost nil/zero.
他们的新装置把劳动成本几乎降为零。
我们队以3比0获胜。
His knowledge of the subject is practically nil/zero.
他在这方面的知识几乎是零。
Their new device reduced labour costs to almost nil/zero.
他们的新装置把劳动成本几乎降为零。
noughtn. 〈英〉零
〔辨析〕
强调数字概念，可与cipher换用；在数字读法上与 zero 相同，可换用。
〔例证〕
nought/zero point one/two three etc.
0.1/0.23等
A million is 1 with six noughts/ciphers after it.
一百万是一后面加六个零。
0.1/0.23等
A million is 1 with six noughts/ciphers after it.
一百万是一后面加六个零。
牛津词典
noun
- 密码；暗号
a secret way of writing, especially one in which a set of letters or symbols is used to represent others- a message in cipher
密码信
- a message in cipher
- 无足轻重的人；无关紧要的东西
a person or thing of no importance - （姓名首字母的）拼合字，花押
the first letters of sb's name combined in a design and used to mark things
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 密码;暗号
Acipheris a secret system of writing that you use to send messages.- ...converting their messages into ciphers.
把他们的信息转换成密码 - ...a cipher clerk.
译电员
- ...converting their messages into ciphers.
- N-COUNT 无足轻重的人；走狗;小兵小卒
If you describe someone as acipher, you mean that they have no power and are used by other people to achieve a particular purpose.- He was little more than a cipher who faithfully carried out the Fuehrer's commands.
他只不过是个走狗，忠实执行元首的命令。
- He was little more than a cipher who faithfully carried out the Fuehrer's commands.
英英释义
noun
- a message written in a secret code
- a secret method of writing
- a person of no influence
- 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
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
verb
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- convert ordinary language into code
- We should encode the message for security reasons
双语例句
- Currently this method only returns the string "This is Cipher Data".
目前，这个方法仅返回字符串“ThisisCipherData”。 - Property contains the cipher strength of the encryption algorithm used on this connection.
属性包含该连接所使用的加密算法的密码长度。 - This USB Cipher Card adopts USB2.0 standard, and adopts FPGA design technology, and imports embedded USB host technology.
该USB加密卡采用了USB2.0接口标准，采用了FPGA设计技术，引入了嵌入式USB主机技术。 - Could you get me out of this cipher?
你能将我从这密码中解放吗？ - In order to encrypt communication, sequence cipher in linear congruence was used to image security.
为了进行保密通信，需要对图像进行加密，采用了一种基于线性同余的序列加密方法。 - Knew the area of hexagon, can change cipher out a.
知道了正六边形的面积，就可以换算出a了。 - A Cipher class object is created and initiated in the decryption mode.
这样就用解密方式创建并初始化了Cipher类对象。 - Next I create a Cipher class object and initiate it in encryption mode.
接着创建Cipher类对象，并以加密方式对它初始化。 - A Design and Analysis of Block Cipher Algorithm
一种基于分组密码算法的设计和分析 - I was a cipher in this company.
在这群人中，我是一个微不足道的小角色。