把電裝滿的器材
這一支走的是 charge 的「裝進去」那一邊。要裝的東西是電，被裝的容器是電池。
noun · B1
A piece of equipment that puts electricity into a battery — for example the plug and cable you use to fill up a phone, a laptop, or an electric car.
充電器
核心畫面
One way to hold charger together: it is 'the one that does the charging'. The -er ending names a , and the verb charge pulls in two directions at once — filling something up, and rushing forward. Each meaning of charger sits on one of those two pulls, so the word is best pictured as a family of rather than one single object.
charger 可以想成「負責做 charge 這件事的那一個」。字尾 -er 就是在指「做這件事的人或東西」。而 …更多收起
charger 可以想成「負責做 charge 這件事的那一個」。字尾 -er 就是在指「做這件事的人或東西」。而 charge 這個動詞本身往兩邊拉：一邊是「把東西裝滿、裝進去」，一邊是「往前衝」。charger 的每個意思，都是站在其中一邊。所以與其硬記三個沒關係的東西，不如記住一個問題：這裡的 charge 是在裝滿，還是在往前衝？From the word’s history
Wiktionary records charger as Middle English chargere, that is charge + -er, the ending that names the person or thing that performs the action.
Wiktionary 記錄 charger 來自中古英語 chargere，也就是 charge 加上 -er；-er 就是「做這個動作的人或東西」。這條線索正好解釋為什麼同一個字可以是器材、是馬、也是盤子——它們共同點不是長相，而是「都在做 charge」。
Wiktionary entry for charger (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1116093706:29686): "From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge + -er."
Three branches
往前衝的那一匹
這一支走的是 charge 的另一邊：向前衝。騎兵衝鋒在英文裡就叫 charge，所以那匹馬就是 charger。
noun · C1
A large, strong horse that a soldier or a knight rides in battle. The word belongs to stories, poems and writing about the past, rather than to talk about horses today.
戰馬
裝東西的大盤
這一支也走「裝載」那一邊，但裝的不是電而是食物，或只是撐場面。
noun · C1
A large flat plate. In today's use it is usually a decorative plate placed under a dinner plate at a formal meal; in older writing it is a big platter that food was carried and served on.
大淺盤／襯盤