Take a shirt and cut the sleeves away. What is left is the top part only — shoulders, chest, back, and two wide straps. That is the picture the clothing senses share: the upper piece, with nothing on the arms. What that piece is made of then splits the two countries: thin cotton for summer in America, knitted wool for winter in Britain.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records that a tank top was the upper part of a tank suit — the one-piece swimming costume worn by women when swimming pools were called swimming tanks. The shape of that upper part is what the name kept.
Wiktionary 記的是：以前游泳池叫 swimming tank，女生穿的連身泳衣叫 tank suit，而 tank top 本來指那件泳衣的上半截。留下來的不是泳衣，而是那個形狀——沒有袖子的上半身。
Wiktionary entry for “tank top” (local kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:579925725)
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原始詞典資料2 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。
tank topnoun
- 1
An item of casual clothing: a top with no sleeves.
- The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company's items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can't make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers.
- 2
The top of a ship's bilge tank, usually the lowest horizontal surface on board.
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。