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You can picture knickers as the clothing that sits closest to the body between the waist and the top of the legs — women's underwear in British English. The word only ever comes in the plural, like trousers or shorts, because it names a two-leg-hole garment; and because underwear is private, English keeps reaching for it whenever it wants a slightly comic, image.
可以想成貼在身上最裡面那一層、蓋住腰到大腿上端的衣物——在英式英語裡就是女生的內褲。這個字永遠是複數，跟 trous…更多收起
可以想成貼在身上最裡面那一層、蓋住腰到大腿上端的衣物——在英式英語裡就是女生的內褲。這個字永遠是複數，跟 trousers、shorts 一樣，因為它指的是有兩個褲管口的東西。另外，因為內褲屬於私密的、有點難為情的東西，英語一想製造好笑又不體面的畫面時，就常常把它抓出來用。原始詞典資料3 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。
knickersnoun/ˈnɪkəz/
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rareKnickerbockers.
- Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads […].
- He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers.
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Women's underpants.
- The debate here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take off our knickers to help out?
knickersintj/ˈnɪkəz/
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A mild exclamation of annoyance.
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。