A sandpit is a box or a special area filled with sand for children to play in — digging, making castles, pouring sand from one bucket to another. You find sandpits in gardens and playgrounds.

A sandpit沙坑 is a box or a special area filled with sand是個裝滿沙子的箱子或特定區域，for children to play in給小孩玩的——digging, making castles, pouring sand from one bucket to another挖沙、堆城堡、把沙從一個桶倒到另一個桶。You find sandpits你會在 in gardens and playgrounds花園和遊樂場找到沙坑。

This is the usual word in British English. In American English the same thing is a sandbox.

This is the usual word這是常用的說法 in British English在英式英文裡。In American English在美式英文裡 the same thing is a sandbox同樣的東西叫 sandbox。

The word is old: from Middle English sandpitte (and related spellings), from Old English sandpytt, equivalent to sand + pit. Here “pit” does not mean a dangerous hole.

The word is old這個詞很古老：from Middle English sandpitte (and related spellings)源自中古英文 sandpitte（和相關拼法），from Old English sandpytt再往前是古英文 sandpytt，equivalent to sand + pit等於 sand + pit。Here “pit”這裡的 pit does not mean a dangerous hole不是指危險的洞。

It just means a hollow place holding the sand. A quite different sand pit can mean a place where people dig sand out of the earth, but this meaning is the children’s play area.

It just means它只是指 a hollow place holding the sand裝著沙子的一個凹陷處。A quite different sand pit完全不同的另一個 sand pit can mean可以指 a place where people dig sand out of the earth人們挖沙出來的採沙場，but this meaning但這裡的意思 is the children’s play area是小孩的遊戲區。