n.[C]

圓木；原木；木料
The cabin was built of logs.
這小屋是用原木建造的。
【海】測程儀，計程儀
航海日誌；飛行日誌
The captain of the ship entered the details in the log.
船長把詳細情況記入航海日誌中。
（機器運轉，檢修等）記錄
（工程，試驗等的）工作記錄簿

vt.

伐（林木）；採伐（某地區）的林木[（+off）]
We'll log another section of the area today.
今天我們要砍伐另一部分林區的樹木。
把（樹木）鋸成段木
把……記入航海（或飛行）日誌
航行；飛行（一定距離，時數）[（+up）]
How many hours did the plane log in the sky between April 30 and May 15?
這架飛機於四月三十日至五月十五日期間在空中飛行了多少小時？

片語

like a log

無知覺的；不動的
He slept like a log.
他睡得很沉。

辨析

同義:

n.圓木；原木；木料

wood lumber timber board

n.記錄；記錄簿；登記

record register account scrapbook album catalog journal

同義參見:

calendar history book commentary record²

以上來源於：《英漢大辭典》

log¹

n.

a part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off.
(also logbook) an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft.
an apparatus for determining the speed of a ship, originally one consisting of a float attached to a knotted line.

v.

(logs, logging, logged)

enter (something) in a log.
▸achieve (a certain distance, speed, or time).
(log in/on or off/out) go through the procedures to begin (or conclude) use of a computer system.
cut down (an area of forest) to exploit the wood commercially.

Derivative

logger n.
logging n.

History

Log is a Middle English word of obscure origin. The link between the original sense of the noun, ‘a part of a tree that has fallen or been cut off’, and the verb ‘enter something in a log’ is found in sense 3 of the noun, ‘an apparatus for determining the speed of a ship’. This originally consisted of a ‘log’ or wooden float attached to a very long knotted line; the log was tossed overboard and the length of line run out in a certain time was used as an estimate of the vessel's speed. From here came the notion of a ship's journal or logbook, in which a detailed daily record of a voyage was entered, and so the verb developed. See also knot¹.