n.

密码；***数字；零；暗号v.计算；做算术；将 ... 写成密码 过去式：ciphered过去分词：ciphered现在分词：ciphering第三人称单数：ciphers

cipher

Noun

a message written in a secret code

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

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 person of no influence

a secret method of writing

Verb

convert ordinary language into code;

"We should encode the message for security reasons"

make a mathematical calculation or computation

cipher例句

用作名词(n.)

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。

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。

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***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.)

I couldn't cipher out why she was there.
我搞不清她为什么会在那儿。

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。

cipher近义词

nobody nothing code cryptograph zero nonentity cryptogram encryption secret message shorthand cypher figure compute work out nix goose egg encipher aught nought naught secret code encrypt inscribe Nada Zippo nil null calculate zip reckon zilch encode