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An easel is a tall frame, usually wood, sometimes metal, that stands on the floor and holds a painting — or a board for painting — while you work. You rest the picture on a little ledge so it does not fall. Artists use an easel in a room or outside; a teacher may use a smaller one in class to hold paper. It is the stand, not the picture itself. The English word comes from Dutch ezel, which means “donkey”. The idea is that the stand carries the painting the way a donkey carries a load. English makes the same kind of joke with horse in words like sawhorse: a frame with legs that holds something up. So an easel is not named for being “easy”, even though the two words look a little close on the page, and it has nothing to do with an eagle. It is just a quiet, practical piece of kit.
組成Borrowed from Dutch ezel (“donkey; easel”), from older Dutch, from Latin asellus (“small donkey”), a smaller form of asinus (“donkey”). The painting stand is likened to a donkey carrying a burden.
原始詞典資料1 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。
easelnoun/ˈiː.z(ə)l/
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An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas.
- Chevalet, (chaſſis de bois ſur lequel les Peintres poſent leurs Tableaux quand ils travaillent) a Painter's Eaſel.
- His [Raphael's] eaſel works ſtand in a lower degree of eſtimation; for though he continually, till the day of his death, embelliſhed his works more and more with the addition of theſe lower ornaments, which entirely make the merit of ſome; yet he never arrived at ſuch perfection as to make him an object of imitation.
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