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

英英释义

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

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。

经典引文

• He was..a cipher in the home.

  出自： P. G. Wodehouse

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

近反义词

【近义词】

• nobody 无足轻重的人...
• nothing 没有什么
• code 密码
• cryptograph 密码
• zero 零
• nonentity 无专长或成就的人...
• cryptogram 密码
• encryption 加密
• secret message 极机密电
• shorthand 速记
• cypher 零
• figure 图形
• compute (用计算机或计数器)计算...
• work out 做出
• nix 无
• goose egg <俚>零分
• encipher 译成密码
• aught 任何事物
• nought 没有
• naught 无
• secret code 保密码
• encrypt 加密
• inscribe 题写
• Nada <西班牙语>什么也没有...
• Zippo 芝宝牌打火机（汽油金属打...
• nil 无
• null 无效的
• calculate 计算
• zip 拉链
• reckon 计算
• zilch 无
• encode 编码