喜樂美語

Picture one piece of clothing with two tubes hanging from a : you step in one leg at a time, pull it up, and everything from the waist down is covered. That two-legged shape is what the word holds on to. However far 'pants' travels inside a sentence, the everyday garment you pull on each morning is still standing behind it. One thing to keep in mind: the garment itself changes across the Atlantic. In American English the tubes are long and worn on the outside; in British English they are small and worn underneath.

可以想成一件從腰帶垂下兩根「管子」的衣服：一腳一腳伸進去、往上一拉，腰部以下就全包住了。這個「兩條腿各一管」的形狀，是這個字一直握著不放的畫面——pants 在句子裡跑到多遠的用法，背後都還站著那件你每天早上套上的衣服。要留意的是，這件衣服在大西洋兩岸不是同一件：美式英文裡它是外穿的長褲，英式英文裡卻是穿在裡面的那件小內褲。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

原始詞典資料8 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。

pantsnoun詞源 1/pænts/

  • 1

    An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.

    • “But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”
    • It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.
  • 2

    An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.

    • I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.
    • Big girls get candy for dry pants.
  • 3

    slangRubbish; something worthless.

    • You're talking pants!
    • The film was a load [or pile] of pants.

pantsadj詞源 1/pænts/

  • 1

    slangOf inferior quality, rubbish.

    • Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?
    • 'Is that what you're going to do when you graduate?' he asked. 'Be a photographer?' 'I wish, but I'm pants at the technical stuff. ...'

pantsverb詞源 1/pænts/

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    To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.

    • Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.
    • [T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。