- 1嬌寵、呵護備至（給很多享受與照顧；不一定帶「慣壞」那麼重的責備）
To pamper someone is to look after them very kindly — extra comfort, extra treats, extra care — sometimes more than they strictly need. You can pamper a child, a guest, a pet, or yourself (a long bath, a slow breakfast, a day with no ). It often sounds warm: hotels promise to pamper you. It can also go a little too far, toward spoiling, but it is usually gentler than spoil, which warns that you may ruin someone’s habits. Though actually, the old meaning was about a person with food until they were overfull; the “make them too comfortable” sense grew from that. Today almost nobody hears the food meaning unless they study the history. In shops you will also meet Pampers, a brand that borrowed the verb; that is a name, not the word itself.
組成From Middle English pamperen, “to cram with food,” from Middle Dutch, a repeated-action form of pampen, “to stuff.” Equal to pamp + -er. The first meaning was feeding someone too much.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
pamperverb/ˈpæm.pə(ɹ)/
- 1
To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
- And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
- 2
datedTo feed luxuriously.
- 3
informalTo put someone in pampers (a diaper).
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- pampers
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