喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˌdiː aɪ ˈwaɪ/自己動手做

    The activity of making, fixing, or building things in your own home yourself, instead of paying someone to do it.

    示範例句 · Example

    My dad loves DIY and built our bookshelf last weekend.

    逐字我爸爸熱愛自己動手做，上週末組了我們的書架。

    「DIY」是 Do It Yourself 的縮寫，指「自己動手做、修、組裝」家裡的東西，不請工人。可以想成把三個字的第一個字母拿出來，變成一個名詞：DIY furniture（自己組的家具）、a DIY project（自己動手的小工程）。在台灣口語常直接說「DIY」，講的就是自己做、不假手他人。

    常見搭配

    • a DIY project

      自己動手的小工程

      a job you do yourself at home

      Painting the fence was our weekend DIY project.

    • a DIY store

      家庭修繕／五金材料店

      a shop that sells tools and materials for home jobs

      We got the brushes from the DIY store.

    • a DIY kit

      自行組裝包

      a set of parts you put together yourself

      The shelf came as a DIY kit with all the screws.

    意思相近

    do-it-yourselfhome improvementhandiwork

core核心畫面

You doing the home job with your own two hands — building a shelf, fixing a tap, painting a wall — instead of hiring someone to do it for you.

可以想成「自己捲起袖子在家動手做」的畫面：要裝層架、修水龍頭、刷油漆，不花錢請師傅，而是自己拿起工具一手包辦。DIY 是 do it yourself 的縮寫，整個重點就落在「yourself（你自己）」這個字上。

意思相近

do-it-yourselfhome improvementhandiwork

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

DIYverb/ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/

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    To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.

    • 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108, Huber was a physicist. Even top Estée Lauder chemists who took over for Huber in 1995 found that... any attempt to cheat on his original formula produced disappointing results, which demands the question: If they couldn't DIY, can you?
    • Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.

DIYadj/ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/

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    Do-it-yourself.

    • Do you know where I could find a DIY pipe repair kit?
    • The product knowledge of salespeople is very high, which enables them to serve the demanding customer groups such as professional painters and builders, in addition to the usual DIY consumers.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • do it yourself

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