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/ˈlʌɡɪdʒ/
the bags and cases that you take with you when you travel
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Picture the pile of bags and cases you have to haul with you on the day you travel — heavy, , following you everywhere. Luggage names that whole pile as one idea rather than as separate objects, which is why it is not counted one by one: one bag is a piece of luggage, two are two pieces of luggage.
可以想成出門那天你手上、腳邊那一堆要一路拖著走的袋子和箱子——重、佔位子、走到哪跟到哪。luggage 指的是這一整…更多收起
可以想成出門那天你手上、腳邊那一堆要一路拖著走的袋子和箱子——重、佔位子、走到哪跟到哪。luggage 指的是這一整堆合起來的概念，不是一個一個的東西，所以它不數個數：一件是 a piece of luggage，兩件是 two pieces of luggage。From the word’s history
From the 1590s, made of the verb lug 'to drag' (late 14c., 'pull something slowly or with effort', from Scandinavian — compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge 'to pull by the hair') plus -age; so, literally 'what has to be lugged about'. The weight and the nuisance are built into the word: it names the dragging, not the bags.
luggage 出現在 1590 年代，是動詞 lug（拖、費力地拉；14 世紀晚期從北歐語進入英文）加上字尾 -age，字面就是「必須一路拖著走的那些東西」。所以重量和麻煩感本來就寫在這個字裡——它命名的其實是「得拖著走」這件事，而不是袋子本身。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entries 'luggage (n.)' and 'lug (v.)'
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。
luggagenoun/ˈlʌɡ.ɪdʒ/
- 1
The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
- August 4, 1726, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey.
- 2
The contents of such containers.
- 3
obsoleteA specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.
- I assisted some time ago in cutting up a tree, that made tolerably good turns or luggage for nineteen or twenty persons, which could be procured for about two dollars at the stump.
- The passengers injured who could not get out were removed out by the railway staff, and then taking part of the luggage the train started back for Burdwan.
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。