喜樂美語
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    nC1

    /əˈplaɪəns/

    A machine, especially one that uses electricity, that people use in the home — for example a fridge or a washing machine.

    家電

    複數 appliances

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Picture the big machines that live in a home and each do one household job — the fridge that keeps things cold, the washing machine that washes. Not tools you hold, not you carry: things that stay put and run.

可以想成：住在家裡、各自負責一件家事的那些機器——冰箱管冷藏、洗衣機管洗衣。它們不是拿在手上的工具，也不是隨身的小玩…更多收起可以想成：住在家裡、各自負責一件家事的那些機器——冰箱管冷藏、洗衣機管洗衣。它們不是拿在手上的工具，也不是隨身的小玩意，而是固定擺在那裡、插上電就運作的東西。

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。

appliancenoun/əˈplaɪ.əns/

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    An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially

    • Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king?
    • “[…] Oh, the pipe! won’t you have it lit again, father?” said Eppie, lifting that medicinal appliance from the ground.
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    An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially:

    • Many house fires are caused by faulty appliances, such as refrigerators, washing machines and dryers.
    • I know I'm artificial But don't put the blame on me I was reared with appliances In a consumer society
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    An implement, an instrument or apparatus designed (or at least used) as a means to a specific end, especially:

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    obsoleteThe act of applying.

    • 1658, Elias Ashmole, The Way to Bliss, London: Nath. Brook, Book 2, Chapter 2 “Of Health,” p. 75, […] there be three things, and every one full of under-branches belonging to this Art and way of Healing: The first is knowledge of the Diseases: the second is the Remedies against them: and the third of the appliance of Remedies; All which should be traversed in this Discourse.
    • [T]he attention to fashion, the tasteful appliance of ornament in each portion of her dress, were quite in place with her: […]
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    obsoleteA means of eliminating or counteracting something undesirable, especially an illness.

    • […] Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are reliev’d, Or not at all.
    • Physician. Now I haue found you out, you are in loue. Jane. I thinke I am, what your appliance now? Can all your Paracelsian mixtures cure it, ’T must be a Surgeon of the Ciuill Law, I feare that must cure me.
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    obsoleterareWilling service, willingness to act as someone wishes.

    • And hearing your high majesty is touch’d With that malignant cause wherein the honour Of my dear father’s gift stands chief in power, I come to tender it and my appliance With all bound humbleness.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。