核心畫面
You can picture 'equipment' as all the gear laid out that you need before you can do a job — the tools and machines that make a task possible. The everyday meaning is that pile of gear itself; a rarer meaning steps back to the act of fitting someone out with it.
可以想成：equipment 是你動手做事前，攤開在眼前、缺了就做不成的那一整套傢伙——讓一件工作得以進行的工具和機…更多收起
可以想成：equipment 是你動手做事前，攤開在眼前、缺了就做不成的那一整套傢伙——讓一件工作得以進行的工具和機器。一種想法是，日常講的是那「一套傢伙」本身；另有一個少見的用法，退一步指「把這些配備裝給某人」的過程。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。
equipmentnoun/ɪˈkwɪpmənt/
- 1
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
- The equipment of the fleet was therefore hastened by de Witt ; in hopes that , by striking at first a successful blow , he might inspire courage into the dismayed States
- 2
Any items used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
- We need more gardening equipment if we want to properly landscape our yard, not just a rake and some gloves.
- The sports shop sells different kits of famous clubs, and equipment from all kind of sports.
- 3
slangThe male genitalia.
- The segment advises the reader matter-of-factly that “the penis [of a whale] should be tucked inside the body and when needed enlarged into an erection”. At the very least, the statement sounds odd. At most, it could make human penis owners consider that their equipment might not represent the highest evolutionary ideal.
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。