1. 1電子郵件筆友(由 pen pal「紙本筆友」類推而來;現在日常多說「網友」)

    A keypal is someone you write to regularly by email, the way a pen pal letters on paper. Key points to the computer keyboard; pal means friend. Teachers liked this word in the 1990s and early 2000s, when email in class still felt new and they wanted a neat pair with pen pal. Native speakers today almost never say it; they would say email friend, or just friend. You may still meet keypal in older school books. It was always a bit of classroom English, not street English, and it has grown even more dated as email itself has become ordinary.

組成key(指電腦鍵盤)+ pal(朋友),仿 pen pal 一詞

同家族的字

  • palfriend; the same piece as in pen pal
  • pen palthe older paper version this word was modelled on
  • keyboardthe key is from the computer keyboard you type on

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

keypalnoun

  • 1

    datedThe email equivalent of a penpal; someone with whom to exchange email for the simple joy of communicating.

    • The most common type of person-to-person contact is through keypal exchanges. (The modern version of penpals.) Many organizations exist to help teachers to find suitable keypal connections for their students.

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