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Breakage is a slightly formal, business-sounding word for things that get broken — especially when someone has to pay for them. If you work in a restaurant and drop plates, the boss may talk about 'breakage'. If a shop sends you glasses and two arrive cracked, the company calls that breakage.
Breakage Breakage is a slightly formal, business-sounding word是一個稍微正式、聽起來像商業用語的字，for things that get broken指的是被打破的東西——especially when someone has to pay for them尤其是當有人得為此賠錢的時候。If you work in a restaurant and drop plates如果你在餐廳工作、打破了盤子，the boss may talk about老闆可能會提到 'breakage'（破損）。If a shop sends you glasses and two arrive cracked如果一家店寄給你玻璃杯，結果有兩個到貨時是裂的，the company calls that breakage公司會把那個叫做 breakage。
It works two ways. Often it is uncountable, meaning the general fact or amount of breaking: 'The company covers all breakage in transit', 'We lose about 3% to breakage every year.' But it is also used countable, for the broken items themselves: 'You must pay for any breakages.' In Britain the plural 'breakages' is very common on signs and rules; American English leans more towards the uncountable form.
It works two ways這個字有兩種用法。Often it is uncountable它常常是不可數的，meaning the general fact or amount of breaking指的是破損這件事或破損量的整體概念：'The company covers all breakage in transit'（公司承擔運送途中所有的破損）, 'We lose about 3% to breakage every year.'（我們每年因破損損失大約3%）。But it is also used countable但它也有可數的用法，for the broken items themselves指破損的物品本身：'You must pay for any breakages.'（任何破損你都得賠償）。In Britain在英國，the plural 'breakages' is very common on signs and rules複數形式 breakages 在標示和規則上很常見；American English leans more towards the uncountable form美式英文則比較偏向不可數的形式。
It is not a word you use about your own life. Nobody says 'There was a breakage in my kitchen' — you say 'I broke a cup.' Keep it for shops, hotels, delivery companies, insurance, and rental agreements. That is where the money question lives, and that is the real feeling of the word: broken things that someone is responsible for.
It is not a word you use about your own life這不是一個你會用來講自己生活的字。Nobody says沒有人會說 'There was a breakage in my kitchen'『我廚房裡有一個 breakage』——you say你會說 'I broke a cup.'（我打破了一個杯子。） Keep it for把它留給 shops, hotels, delivery companies, insurance, and rental agreements商店、飯店、快遞公司、保險，和租賃合約使用。That is where the money question lives這正是牽涉到金錢問題的地方，and that is the real feeling of the word而這就是這個字真正的感覺：broken things that someone is responsible for有人得負責的破損物品。
組成break + -age. The ending -age came into English from French, and it makes a noun meaning the result or the amount of something — as in leakage, spillage, wastage, shrinkage.
原始詞典資料4 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。
breakagenoun/ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/
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The act of breaking.
- A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
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Something that has been broken.
- At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
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accountingbusinessfinanceA service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
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The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
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。