A sunshade is something you put between yourself and the sun to make shade. The old-fashioned meaning is the one dictionaries lead with: a light umbrella carried, especially by women a hundred years ago, to keep the sun off — the thing you see in old paintings, also called a parasol.

A sunshade is somethingsunshade是一種東西，you put between yourself and the sun你把它放在自己跟太陽之間，to make shade用來製造陰影。The old-fashioned meaning is the one dictionaries lead with字典最先列出的是比較老派的意思：a light umbrella carried一種隨身帶著的輕便小傘，especially by women a hundred years ago尤其是一百年前的女性會撐的，to keep the sun off用來遮太陽——the thing you see in old paintings你在老畫作裡會看到的那種東西，also called a parasol也叫做 parasol（陽傘）。

But the word is still alive for other things that do the same job: the big umbrella over a café table, an awning over a shop window, and, very commonly today, the folding silver screen you put inside a car windscreen so the seats do not turn into an oven.

But the word is still alive for other things that do the same job但這個字現在還活著，用在其他做同樣工作的東西上：the big umbrella over a café table咖啡店桌子上方的大陽傘，an awning over a shop window商店櫥窗上方的遮雨棚，and, very commonly today還有現在非常常見的，the folding silver screen you put inside a car windscreen放在車子擋風玻璃裡的那種可折疊銀色遮陽板，so the seats do not turn into an oven讓座椅不會變得像烤箱一樣燙。

Car shops in Taiwan sell exactly this. So do not think of the word as dead — think of it as an old word that has quietly moved into new jobs. It is countable: a sunshade, two sunshades.

Car shops in Taiwan sell exactly this台灣的汽車百貨就在賣這種東西。So do not think of the word as dead所以不要覺得這個字已經過時了——think of it as an old word that has quietly moved into new jobs把它想成一個悄悄換了新工作的老字。It is countable它是可數名詞：a sunshade, two sunshadesa sunshade，兩個就是 two sunshades。