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To declutter is to make a place tidier by taking out the extra things — the stuff you do not use, do not love, and do not need. Drawers, wardrobes, kitchens, computer desktops, even a calendar: if it feels crowded with objects or tasks, people now say declutter. It is a fairly new everyday verb, popular with lifestyle writing and with anyone trying to live with less. It is friendly and practical, not a government word and not very formal. You can declutter a room, a shelf, or your life, though the last one is a stretch: it still pictures “too many things,” even when the things are habits or apps. There is also a noun use, a declutter, meaning a session of doing this. The opposite feeling is clutter: a mess of things piled up. Declutter is simply taking that pile down. It does not mean , and it does not mean throw everything away in a rage; the idea is to choose, remove, and leave space.
清除雜物、斷捨離(台灣常直接說斷捨離)
組成From de- + clutter. de- means “take away”; clutter is the messy pile of extra things.
同家族的字
- clutterthe mess of extra things; declutter is the taking of that mess away
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。
declutternoun/diːˈklʌtə(ɹ)/
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The act or process of removing clutter; a decluttering.
declutterverb/diːˈklʌtə(ɹ)/
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To remove clutter from, to tidy.
- I decluttered my living room.
- The first phase of the station facelift includes decluttering the ticket office, a brighter concourse, and a longer London-bound platform canopy.
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。