dice
音标：
英音/ daɪs / 美音/ daɪs /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Every day since the trees were planted has been a roll of the dice.
自从植树以来，每一天都像掷骰子一样。
—New York Times
With Nathan Lyon hobbling around the boundary, the pitch dormant and the Australia pacers shattered, the tourists had one last throw of the dice.
内森·里昂（Nathan Lyon）在边界上一瘸一拐地走着，球场处于休眠状态，澳大利亚步行者队崩溃了，游客们进行了最后一次掷骰子。
—BBC
Then the array of detached coils, capacitors, pins and transistors are sieved, sorted, sliced and diced as they move along a conveyor belt.
然后，分离的线圈、电容器、引脚和晶体管阵列在沿着传送带移动时被筛选、分类、切片和切块。
—BBC
基本释意：
noun
a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
骰子；掷骰游戏；小块食物
同义词：
die,cube
短释义：
The noun dice is the plural form of the singular die. Although many people use the word dice when they’re talking about a single die, it’s actually only correct to call two or more of the dotted cubes dice. You can also use the word as a verb to mean “chop into tiny pieces or cubes.” You might, for example, read a recipe instruction that says: “Dice three tomatoes.”
骰子是玩 Yahtzee 或 Monopoly 时掷的东西；它们是两个立方体，每侧都标有代表数字一到六的点。
长释义：
The noun dice is the plural form of the singular die. Although many people use the word dice when they’re talking about a single die, it’s actually only correct to call two or more of the dotted cubes dice. You can also use the word as a verb to mean “chop into tiny pieces or cubes.” You might, for example, read a recipe instruction that says: “Dice three tomatoes.”
名词 dice 是单数 die 的复数形式。尽管许多人在谈论单个骰子时使用“骰子”一词，但实际上只有将两个或多个虚线立方体称为骰子才是正确的。您也可以使用该词作为动词，表示“切成小块或立方体”。例如，您可能会读到一份食谱说明：“将三个西红柿切成丁。”
文学例句：
“Look—if you were playing Mr. Lemoncello’s Family Frenzy and the first and second time you rolled the dice, you landed on Sewer Repairs and Dog Pound, would you quit?”
“你看，如果你在玩柠檬先生的家庭疯狂，并且第一次和第二次掷骰子时，你选择了下水道修理和狗磅，你会放弃吗？”
—Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics by Chris Grabenstein
They had got my parents doing things like taking bus trips to factory outlets and playing a dice game called “bunko” and hanging around the piano bar at the Ramada Inn.
他们让我父母做一些事情，比如乘坐巴士去厂家直销店、玩一种叫做“bunko”的骰子游戏，以及在华美达酒店的钢琴酒吧闲逛。
—The Secret History by Donna Tartt
So we rolled poker dice out of a deep leather dice-cup.
所以我们从一个深皮革骰盅中掷出扑克骰子。
—The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
词源：
dice (n.)plural of die (n.), early 14c., des, dys, plural of dy, altered 14c. to dyse, dyce, and 15c. to dice. “As in pence, the plural s retains its original breath sound, probably because these words were not felt as ordinary plurals, but as collective words” [OED]. Sometimes used as singular 1400-1700. Dice-box “box from which dice are thrown in gaming” is from 1550s.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
dice (n.)die (n.) 的复数，14c 早期，des，dy，dy 的复数，14c 更改。 dise、dyce 和 15c。骰子。 “就像便士一样，复数 s 保留了原来的呼吸音，可能是因为这些词不被认为是普通的复数，而是作为集体词”[OED]。有时用作单数 1400-1700。骰子盒“游戏中扔骰子的盒子”来自 1550 年代。相关条目及更多
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