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    Garb is a word for clothes, but not the everyday kind of word. It means a whole style of dress — often the clothes that show someone’s job, rank, or group, or clothes that look strange or old-fashioned to us.

    Garbgarb is是 a word for clothes,指衣服的一個字, but not the everyday kind of word.但不是日常會用的那種字。It means它指的是 a whole style of dress一整套的穿著風格 — often the clothes that show someone's job, rank, or group,——通常是能顯示出一個人職業、身分,或所屬團體的服裝, or clothes that look strange or old-fashioned to us.或是我們看起來覺得奇怪、過時的服裝。

    So you hear garb, military garb, the garb of a judge, or traditional garb at a festival. News and books like it; friends almost never say “nice garb” about a T-shirt.

    So you hear所以你會聽到 priestly garb,神職人員的garb服裝、 military garb,軍人的garb、 the garb of a judge,法官的garb, or traditional garb at a festival.或節慶時穿的傳統garb。News and books like it;新聞和書籍很喜歡用這個字; friends almost never say "nice garb"朋友之間幾乎不會說「nice garb」好看的garb about a T-shirt.來形容一件T恤。

    Though actually, it can also sound a little teasing when the clothes are odd: “in the garb of a superhero.” There is a verb too, to garb someone (to dress them that way), but you will meet the noun far more.

    Though actually,不過其實, it can also sound a little teasing聽起來也可能有點調侃的意味 when the clothes are odd:當服裝很奇怪的時候: "in the garb of a superhero."像"in the garb of a superhero"打扮成超級英雄的garb。 There is a verb too,也有動詞用法, to garb someoneto garb someone (to dress them that way),把某人打扮成那樣, but you will meet the noun far more.但你會更常遇到名詞用法。

    It feels formal and a bit literary. In daily talk, people say clothes, outfit, or uniform instead.

    It feels它給人的感覺 formal and a bit literary.正式,而且有點文學性。In daily talk,在日常對話裡, people say instead人們會改說 clothes,clothes衣服、 outfit,outfit整套服裝, or uniform.或uniform制服。

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成From Middle French garbe, “a graceful outline or shape” (Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo, “grace, elegance.” Further back it is Germanic — the same old line as English gear — and at the bottom it meant “to prepare” (Frankish *garwijan, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną). Clothes as what someone is fitted out in.

同家族的字

  • gearsame old Germanic root for preparing or fitting someone out; gear kept the ‘equipment’ side, garb kept the ‘clothes’ side

原始詞典資料6 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。

garbnoun詞源 1/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/

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    Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.

  • 2

    A type of dress or clothing.

    • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
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    A guise, external appearance.

    • You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.

garbverb詞源 1/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/

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    To dress in garb.

garbnoun詞源 2/ɡɑː(ɹ)b/

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    governmentheraldryhobbiesA wheatsheaf.

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    A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

    • Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。