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A mitten is a warm covering for the hand that has a separate place only for the thumb. The other four fingers stay together in one shared pocket. That design keeps fingers warmer, but it makes small jobs — buttons, keys, a phone screen — harder. Children wear mittens in snow; some do too, until they need a better grip. A glove gives each finger its own tube; a mitten does not. Though actually, many people say gloves for both when they are not being careful. The word you will meet is the noun. A verb to mitten sits in old dictionaries, but students almost never need it.
連指手套(只有拇指分開;四指連在一起。和五指分開的「手套」不一樣)
組成From Middle English myteyne, from Old French mitaine (still French mitaine). The French origin is not settled: possibly a playful old name for a cat, or a Germanic word for “middle / half.” Scholars do not agree, so that is as far as we can honestly go.
同家族的字
- mitta short form of mitten; now often a thick baseball glove, or a casual word for a hand
原始詞典資料7 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。
Mittenname
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informalThe Lower Peninsula of Michigan, United States.
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A flat-topped mountain near Mount Armytage, Antarctica.
mittennoun/ˈmɪtən/
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A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.
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The paw of a cat or dog that is of a different color from the main body.
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datedA romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover.
- to give someone the mitten; to get the mitten
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slangA boxing glove.
mittenverb/ˈmɪtən/
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To dress in mittens; to put a mitten on.
- He mittened his hand and beat it violently for a minute before exposing it to the frost to strike a match.
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。