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Glassware is things made of glass that you use, especially for drinking and eating: glasses, bowls, , vases. Shops and wedding lists sell glassware as a group. A window is glass, but it is not glassware — glassware is the movable things you put on a table or a shelf. It is a slightly shop-like word; at home you just say “the glasses.” In a science room, glassware is the and flasks. It is usually uncountable: some glassware, not a glassware. Though actually, people stretch it a little — a pretty vase in a cabinet still counts, even if nobody is eating from it.
玻璃器皿(杯子、碗、花瓶;實驗室燒杯也算)。不是窗戶上的玻璃,也不是眼鏡。
組成glass + -ware. The -ware piece goes back through Middle English ware and Old English waru to Proto-West Germanic *waru and Proto-Germanic *warō, a word for goods.
同家族的字
- glassthe material these things are made of
- silverwaresame -ware “goods of this kind” ending
- hardwaresame -ware ending
原始詞典資料1 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。
glasswarenoun
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Articles made from glass, especially drinking glasses, jugs and other tableware made of glass.
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。