核心畫面
Picture the pile of cloth that is somewhere in the washing cycle — waiting to go in, going round, or hanging up dry. The word covers the whole cycle, which is why the same pile is 'the laundry' before and after it is clean. Then the place that does this for you takes the same name.
可以想成：一堆處在洗衣循環某個階段的布——等著要洗的、正在洗的、剛洗好晾著的。這個字涵蓋整個循環，所以同一堆東西洗前…更多收起
可以想成：一堆處在洗衣循環某個階段的布——等著要洗的、正在洗的、剛洗好晾著的。這個字涵蓋整個循環，所以同一堆東西洗前洗後都叫 the laundry。而替你做這件事的那個地方，也就沿用了同一個名字。原始詞典資料5 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。
laundrynoun/ˈlɔːn.dɹi/
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A laundering; a washing.
- In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.
- 2
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
- Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.
- 3
That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
- You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
- Q. Did you use to do the washing around your house, too? / The Court: She did all the work of the house, I suppose. / Mr. Feltenstein: That's what I want to find out. / A. I gave the laundry to the laundry. / Q. What? / A. I gave the wash to the laundry.
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slangAmerican-footballball-gamesfootballA penalty flag.
- 5
A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
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。