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Caboodle means everything — the whole lot, nothing left out. You almost always meet it in a set phrase: the whole caboodle, or the whole kit and caboodle. It is everyday American talk, a little old-fashioned and a little playful. You would not put it in a serious report. It does not name one object sitting on a table; it names 'all of it.' Older speakers and people putting on a folksy voice still like it; younger speakers may only know the phrase, not the word on its own.
全部;所有的東西(口語,幾乎都說 the whole caboodle)
組成US slang from the mid-1800s. It is thought to be a worn-down form of kitboodle, from kit (a set of things) + boodle (the whole lot). People were already saying the whole boodle in the 1830s; the whole caboodle is found in 1848.
原始詞典資料1 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。
caboodlenoun
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informalAny large collection of things or people.
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。