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Bric-a-brac means the small things around a house that are not worth much money but look interesting or pretty: little vases, china animals, old boxes, from a trip. You might see a shelf full of bric-a-brac, or a market stall selling it. The word can sound fond — a life collected in small objects — or a little , as if the things are clutter. It is slightly old-fashioned and a bit French in flavour; knick-knacks is a closer everyday cousin. Though actually it is not the word for a true antique with a high price. These are small, mixed, not-very-precious things, sitting out to be looked at.
小擺設、小玩意兒
組成Borrowed from French bric-à-brac, “mixed things of little value,” from an old phrase that meant “at random.” The two halves are sound-words; they do not each carry a clear meaning on their own.
原始詞典資料2 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。
bric-a-bracnoun/ˈbɹɪkəbɹæk/
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Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value.
- The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.
- No doubt her pleasure would have been at that moment to give him not only that gold which she had been saving up against rent-day, but the spoons, the furniture, and all the valuables of the house, including, perhaps, J. J.'s bricabrac, cabinets, china, and so forth.
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Any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous items; a hodgepodge, an olio.
- Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.
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。