喜樂美語
  1. 1大掃除、出清（把不要的東西清掉）

    A clear-out is when you go through your things and throw away, give away, or sell what you do not want any more. You might have a clear-out of a , a garage, or a whole house. The noun is everyday British English, the language of homes and , not offices. People also just use the verb: I'm going to clear out the garage. Though actually, that same verb can mean something else: Clear out! meaning leave this place, often because someone is angry. The noun a clear-out almost always means the tidying kind — stuff going out, not people being told to go.

    clear-out 指把自己的東西翻一遍，丟掉、送人或賣掉不再需要的物品，例如「have a clear-out of」一個櫥櫃、車庫，甚至整間房子。它是英式日常英語，屬於家裡和櫥櫃的用語，不是辦公室的說法。也可以直接用動詞，像是「I'm going to clear out the garage.」（我要把車庫清一清）。同一組字也可以表示別的意思，例如「Clear out!」，是叫人離開這裡，通常是因為對方生氣了。名詞 a clear-out 幾乎都指整理的那種，是東西被清出去，而不是叫人走開。

From the word’s history

Noun from the verb phrase clear out.

由動詞片語 clear out 變成的名詞。

Wiktionary

組成A noun made from the phrasal verb clear out (to empty a place of things). English often turns a verb-plus-little-word into a noun like this.

同家族的字

  • clearthe verb at the heart of clear out: to make a place empty

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

clear-outnoun

  • 1

    The act of emptying a room or space.

    • We should give the garage a clear-out to make space for the new car.
    • DB Cargo has begun its clear-out of its Class 90 electric locomotive fleet in a fresh attempt to sell 12 examples, some of which have been out of use for almost 20 years.
  • 2

    ball-gamesbasketballgamesA semicircular sweep with the ball grasped firmly in both hands.

  • 3

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesThe act of removing opponents from a ruck or scrum in order to secure possession of the ball.

    • Dave Kearney was straight over the ball in a jackal, and Mul made a brilliant clear-out.
    • Leading British rugby correspondent Brendan Gallagher, writing in The Rugby Paper on 31 December 2017, produced a withering indictment of the practice, saying: “Sort out the thuggery at clear-out time, start reffing it properly. The clear out doesn't exist in law and certainly shouldn't be used as an excuse for players who are not bound to launch themselves off their feet like an Exocet and take out-injure-maim players who are behind the ball and legally bound on. Or sometimes just trying to reach the ruck."

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。