陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

apparatus/ blunt/ decrepit/ gadget/ implement/ kit/ paraphernalia/ percolator/ perforate/ shovel/ siren/ trough/ wedge/ xerox

1. 「工具」、「用具」可用implement，「小工具」、「小器械」叫gadget：

•Spades and hoes are a gardener's implements.

•Shopkeepers are not supposed to sell knives and other sharp implements to children.

•This is a neat gadget for sharpening knives.

•Some businessmen declare that the surest way to make money nowadays is to produce gadgets that will relieve women of housework.

2. 個人「完成特定事情或技巧的一套小工具」可用kit或paraphernalia：

•As a do-it-yourself fan, Mr. Robinson bought a carpenter's kit.

•The writer's desk was cluttered with paper, pen, ink, and other paraphernalia of the writing craft.

•I keep all my photographic paraphernalia in that cupboard.

3. 「為某種用途而裝的一組儀器或機器等」叫apparatus：

•This electric heating apparatus is very clean.

•A lot of apparatus was unworkable in our physics laboratory.

4. 東西「老舊的」、「破舊的」可用decrepit：

•The decrepit car blocked traffic on the highway.

5. 在紙張等上面「打洞」叫perforate，「影印」、「複印」可用xerox，把地上的障礙物等「剷除」可用shovel，讓刀劍等「變鈍」用blunt：

•This machine is used to perforate sheets of postage stamps.

•Would you have this page xeroxed?

•Several young people voluntarily shoveled a path through the snow.

•A good sword will not be easily blunted by long and frequent use.

•Time blunts the edge of sorrow.

6. 幾種用具或工具的名稱：

A. 「咖啡壺」叫percolator：

•This percolator was made in Taiwan.

B. 「警報器」可用siren：

•We were watching TV when the siren of the fire engines passed by.

C. 餵養動物的「食槽」或「水槽」叫trough：

•The horse was led to the water trough, but it did not drink.

D. 用以撐開一個空間或剖開某物的三角狀金屬、橡膠或木塊－「楔子」－叫 wedge：

•Put a wedge in the door so that it will stay open.

•Pieces of stone can be split off by forcing wedges between the layers.