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A latrine is a toilet outdoors, the kind you find in a camp, on a building site, or — most of all — in the army. It is not the bathroom in a house. It may be a simple hole, a trench, or a small hut over a pit, built because there are no . Soldiers, , and aid workers use the word; in ordinary city talk people just say toilet. It can sound rough or old-fashioned, and it often carries a smell of mud, heat, and sharing with many people. Though actually, armies still need the word because a camp has to put the toilet somewhere on purpose, away from food and water, or people get sick.
(軍營或營地的)戶外廁所、野戰廁所。不是家裡的廁所。
組成From French latrine, from Latin lātrīna. English borrowed the army-and-camp sense with the French word.
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。
latrinenoun/ləˈtɹiːn/
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An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.
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Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.
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obsoleteA chamber pot.
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。