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A monocle is one round piece of glass that a person puts in front of one eye — usually by squeezing it into the eye socket — to see more clearly. It is not a pair of glasses, and it is not a magnifying glass you hold in your hand. The word came into English in the 1880s from French. For a time it was a fashionable help for the eyes, and it became a cartoon picture of a certain kind of rich, formal man, often with a top hat. Almost nobody wears one as everyday help now; people use glasses or contact lenses. Though actually, some people still wear a monocle as a look, for style, not because they need it — so the object survived as costume after it as a tool.
組成Borrowed in 1886 from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus “one-eyed,” from mono- “single” + oculus “eye.”
同家族的字
- binocularsbi- means two; these are for both eyes, where a monocle is for one
- ocularfrom Latin oculus, “eye” — the same piece as in monocle
- monocularsame two pieces, “one” + “eye”; a small telescope for one eye
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monoclenoun/ˈmɑnəkəl/
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A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
- 2
obsoleteA one-eyed animal.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。