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A carafe is a glass with a wide neck, made for pouring drink at the table — usually water or wine. It is open or has only a simple , so you can pour easily. Restaurants put a carafe of water on the table; some people pour wine into a carafe so it can breathe a little before you drink it. Though actually, it is not quite a bottle (a bottle is closed, often with a screw top or cork, and you store drink in it) and not quite a fancy (a is the heavy, often cut-glass pot people use when they want wine to look special). A carafe is the plain, wide-mouthed glass in the middle. The word feels a bit French and a bit restaurant-like; at home many people just say .
玻璃水瓶；盛酒瓶（餐廳桌上那種寬口玻璃壺；醒酒用的較華麗的叫醒酒器）
組成From French carafe, from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”, from ḡarafa, “to ladle”. First in English in 1786. Doublet of carboy.
同家族的字
- carboysame origin: a large bottle, often for chemicals or water
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。
carafenoun/kəˈɹæf/
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A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
- Amongst the scattered letters and papers, there stood a claret jug, a large carafe of water, and an empty glass.
- […]I ask if he'd like something to drink besides the carafe of tap water that has materialised on the table while we've been talking.
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A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used both for serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.
- Emma brings out the carafe of dark coffee.
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。