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Gadgetry is taken as a heap — all the little machines and clever devices people buy, show off, and then leave in a drawer. A phone, a smart watch, a tiny camera, a kitchen tool with too many buttons: that whole pile is gadgetry. You would not usually call one object gadgetry; the word likes a collection. Though actually, it often carries a small sigh. 'He is obsessed with gadgetry' does not sound like praise. It can mean flashy rather than useful, or simply too much stuff. Shops prefer ; newspapers and grouchy conversations prefer gadgetry. It is a little more formal, and a little less kind.
小玩意兒、3C小物(常帶點嫌棄,覺得花俏)
組成gadget + -ry. The ending -ry makes a noun for a set of things, as in machinery.
同家族的字
- gadgetgadgetry is simply gadget plus a suffix meaning 'this kind of stuff as a group'
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。
gadgetrynoun/ˈɡæd͡ʒətɹi/
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Machines, technology.
- A cell phone, a pager, a PDA, an iPod, and a digital watch — what do you need all that gadgetry for?
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A gadget.
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。