A lantern is a light you can carry. The old kind is a metal box with glass sides, and a flame or a bulb inside, so the wind cannot blow it out. People walked with lanterns at night, hung them by a door, or took them into a barn.

A lantern一個lantern(提燈/燈籠) is a light you can carry是一種可以提著走的燈。The old kind舊式的那種 is a metal box with glass sides是一個金屬盒子，側邊裝玻璃，and而 a flame or a bulb inside裡面有火焰或燈泡，so而 the wind cannot blow it out讓風吹不熄它。People人們 walked with lanterns at night會提著lantern夜間走路、hung them by a door把它掛在門邊、or took them into a barn或帶進穀倉裡。

Paper lanterns — the kind you see at Mid-Autumn in Taiwan — are lanterns too: a light inside a paper shell. Today many lanterns are camping lamps with a handle and a cover around the light. A table lamp usually sits still; a lantern is made to carry or hang.

Paper lanterns紙做的lantern——the kind you see at Mid-Autumn in Taiwan就是你在台灣中秋節看到的那種——are lanterns too也算是lantern：a light inside a paper shell一個裝在紙罩裡的光源。Today今天 many lanterns很多lantern are camping lamps with a handle and a cover around the light就是有把手、燈外面有罩子的露營燈。A table lamp一盞桌燈 usually sits still通常是固定不動的；a lantern一個lantern is made to carry or hang則是設計來提著走或掛起來的。

English borrowed the word from French, from Latin lanterna. That Latin word was a mixed-up form of a Greek word for a torch, close to our word lamp, and Latin lucerna (a lamp) pulled the sound too.

English英語 borrowed the word從French借了這個詞，from Latin lanterna源自拉丁文lanterna。That Latin word那個拉丁詞 was a mixed-up form of a Greek word for a torch是希臘文「火把」一詞的混合變形，close to our word lamp和我們的lamp(燈)這個詞很接近，and而 Latin lucerna (a lamp) pulled the sound too拉丁文的lucerna(燈)也把發音拉了過來。

For a few hundred years some people wrote lanthorn, because they guessed the sides were made of horn. That story is a folk tale about the spelling, not where the word really came from.

For a few hundred years有好幾百年的時間，some people wrote lanthorn有些人把它寫成lanthorn，because they guessed the sides were made of horn因為他們猜側邊是用牛角(horn)做的。That story這個說法 is a folk tale about the spelling只是關於拼法的一個民間傳說，not where the word really came from並不是這個詞真正的來源。

Old English had its own word, lēohtfæt, “light-container”; lantern took its place.

Old English古英語 had its own word有自己的詞，lēohtfæt, “light-container”lēohtfæt，意思是「裝光的容器」；lantern lantern took its place後來取代了它。