| 释义 |
‖ suan-pan|swæn pæn|
Also souan-, shwan-, swam-, swan-.
[Chinese, lit. reckoning board.]
The Chinese abacus.
1736tr. Du Halde's Hist. China III. 70 In casting up Accounts they [sc. the Chinese] make use of an Instrument called Souan pan. 1748Gentl. Mag. July 295/2, I desire to give the public a Swan Pan that in my opinion is much preferable to that of the Chinese. 1833Penny Cycl. I. 7/1 This instrument, called in Chinese Shwanpan. 1836J. F. Davis Chinese II. xviii. 296 A little apparatus called a Suân-pân, or ‘calculating dish’. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 526/1 The swan-pan, still in constant use among the Chinese. 1917S. Couling Encycl. Sinica 1/1 Suan p‘an, reckoning plate, the counting-board used by the Chinese. 1946G. Stimpson Bk. about Thousand Things 207 Virtually all calculations were performed on the abacus, an apparatus resembling the Chinese suan pan or the bead-and-frame affairs now used in kindergarten work. 1973T. R. Tregear Chinese vi. 128 A further six hours a week is devoted to arithmetic, when calculating with the abacus or suan p'an is learnt. |