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A penlight is a small electric torch, about as thin as a pen, that you carry in your hand or pocket. Doctors and nurses use one to look into eyes and throats; other people keep one in a drawer or bag for dark corners and power cuts. It is a real light, not a toy pen: you cannot write with it. American English likes penlight (sometimes written pen light); in British English you may also hear pen torch, because torch is the ordinary British word for a . It is weaker and narrower than a full — a little beam, not a flood — which is exactly why it is handy in a pocket.
筆燈
組成pen + light. Named because the torch is about as small and thin as a pen.
同家族的字
- pennamed for the size and shape, not because it writes
- lightthe second half: it is a small electric light
- flashlightsame second half; the bigger hand light, especially in American English
原始詞典資料1 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。
penlightnoun
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A small torch or flashlight that resembles a fountain pen.
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。