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In British English, the hob is the flat top of a — the part with the rings or hot plates where you put the pans. You put the kettle on the hob, turn the hob down, or wipe the hob after cooking.
In British English在英式英文裡, the hob is the flat top of a cookerhob指的是爐子上面那塊平的部分 — the part with the rings or hot plates where you put the pans也就是有爐圈或加熱盤、放鍋子的那個部位。 You put the kettle on the hob你會把水壺放在hob上, turn the hob down把hob的火轉小, or wipe the hob after cooking或是煮完飯後把hob擦乾淨
A British 'cooker' is often the whole unit: hob on top, oven underneath, so hob means only the top, not the oven. There are gas hobs, electric hobs, and induction hobs.
A British 'cooker' is often the whole unit英式的'cooker'常常是指整組爐具: hob on top, oven underneath上面是hob，下面是烤箱, so hob means only the top, not the oven所以hob只指上面那部分，不包括烤箱。 There are gas hobs, electric hobs, and induction hobshob有瓦斯式的、電式的，還有電磁爐式的
This is ordinary kitchen English in Britain. Americans almost never say it; they say stove, stovetop, or burners. If you use hob with an American, they may stare.
This is ordinary kitchen English in Britain這在英國是很普通的廚房用語。 Americans almost never say it美國人幾乎不會這樣說; they say stove, stovetop, or burners他們會說stove、stovetop，或burners。 If you use hob with an American, they may stare如果你對美國人講hob，他們可能會愣住看著你
Older houses also had a hob as a shelf beside an open fire, where you kept a kettle warm — same broad idea of a hot standing-place — but the cooker-top is the meaning you will meet now.
Older houses also had a hob as a shelf beside an open fire以前的老房子也有一種hob，是壁爐旁邊的一塊擱板, where you kept a kettle warm用來讓水壺保持溫熱 — same broad idea of a hot standing-place大致上還是「熱的擱置處」這個概念 — but the cooker-top is the meaning you will meet now但你現在會遇到的意思是爐子上面那塊平面
Informal at home; also on the labels in British shops. Not a hobbit, and not the hub of a wheel, though hob and hub are old cousins.
Informal at home在家裡用是很口語的, also on the labels in British shops也會出現在英國商店的商品標籤上。 Not a hobbit這跟hobbit（哈比人）沒關係, and not the hub of a wheel也不是輪子的hub（輪轂）, though hob and hub are old cousins不過hob和hub其實是很久以前的親戚字
組成Related to hub, but the older origin of both words is obscure — nobody is sure of the first root.
同家族的字
- hubold cousins; both are a central or standing part, though the deeper origin of both is unclear
原始詞典資料13 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。
Hobname/hɑb/
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obsoleteA diminutive of the male given names Robert or Robin.
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archaicA nickname for Robin Goodfellow, Puck; (later) the devil
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A surname originating as a patronymic.
hobnoun詞源 1/hɑb/
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A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
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historicalThe flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
- They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. A kettle steamed upon the hob, and in the midst of the wreck of papers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons.
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The top cooking surface on a cooker. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), usually called rings.
- And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remainder of the coal to make the kettle, which was filled and left on the hob, finally boil.
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A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
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A male ferret.
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The hub of a wheel.
- August 31 1776, George Washington, letter to the President of Congress the wheels of the carriages sinking up to the hobs rendered it impossible for our whole force to drag them.
hobverb詞源 1/hɑb/
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To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
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To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.
hobnoun詞源 2/hɑb/
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obsoleteA fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
- From elves, hobs, and fairies, […] Defend us, good Heaven!
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obsoleteA countryman; a rustic or yokel.
- More fitter for the Country Hobs.
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。