Picture a counter where a letter leaves your hand. On your side there is one person with one parcel; on the other side there is a scale, a stamp, and a system that will carry the parcel to a door you cannot see. The word points at that handover. Sometimes it means the room where it happens, and sometimes the whole system waiting behind the counter — and English lets the same two words do both jobs.
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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。
post officenoun/ˈpəʊst ˌɒfɪs/
- 1
A place (building, office, shop, or counter) concerned with the business of delivering letters, post or mail and selling stamps, etc.
- We were over the border here, into Northern Ireland, and the post office had a very English atmosphere. It was pleasant, too, much as we enjoyed the hospitality of the Republic, to be buying stamps with the Queen's head on them, and to be posting our cards in a red pillar-box, instead of a green one.
- 2
An organization that delivers letters.
- “The post-office is a wonderful establishment!” said she.—“The regularity and despatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!”
- 3
A party game involving the exchange of kisses.
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。