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A matchbox is a small box for holding matches, usually wooden ones, with a striking side on the box. That is the plain, older meaning, and the one this entry is for. Though actually, Matchbox is also a famous brand of tiny metal toy cars (now owned by Mattel), so named because the toys were small enough to fit in a matchbox. English speakers now use matchbox for those little cars in general, and they stretch it as a picture-word too: a matchbox house or matchbox flat is a home so small it feels like a toy. Context usually makes clear which one you mean.
火柴盒；也可指火柴盒小汽車（Matchbox 品牌，因車子小到能放進火柴盒而得名）
組成From match + box. The toy-car sense comes from the Matchbox brand (Mattel), named because the toys were sized to fit in matchboxes; the brand name then became an everyday word for those little cars.
同家族的字
- matchbooksame fire-match; paper matches in a folded cover rather than a box
- matchstickthe sticks kept in the box
原始詞典資料2 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。
matchboxnoun詞源 1
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A small box, usually a small cardboard box, in which matches are kept.
matchboxnoun詞源 2
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Any small, die-cast toy car, usually a collectible.
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。