喜樂美語
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    /ˌdiː aɪ ˈwaɪ/

    The activity of making, fixing, or building things in your own home yourself, instead of paying someone to do it.

    自己動手做

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核心畫面

You doing the home job with your own two hands — building a shelf, fixing a tap, painting a wall — instead of hiring someone to do it for you.

可以想成「自己捲起袖子在家動手做」的畫面：要裝層架、修水龍頭、刷油漆，不花錢請師傅，而是自己拿起工具一手包辦。DIY…更多收起可以想成「自己捲起袖子在家動手做」的畫面：要裝層架、修水龍頭、刷油漆，不花錢請師傅，而是自己拿起工具一手包辦。DIY 是 do it yourself 的縮寫，整個重點就落在「yourself（你自己）」這個字上。

原始詞典資料3 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。

DIYverb/ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/

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    To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.

    • 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108, Huber was a physicist. Even top Estée Lauder chemists who took over for Huber in 1995 found that... any attempt to cheat on his original formula produced disappointing results, which demands the question: If they couldn't DIY, can you?
    • Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.

DIYadj/ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/

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    Do-it-yourself.

    • Do you know where I could find a DIY pipe repair kit?
    • The product knowledge of salespeople is very high, which enables them to serve the demanding customer groups such as professional painters and builders, in addition to the usual DIY consumers.

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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。