1. 1洗碗間(舊時大宅廚房旁的清洗間)

    In a large house in past times, especially in Britain, the scullery was the room next to the kitchen where the wet, messy jobs were done: washing dishes, scrubbing pots, cleaning vegetables, filling buckets. Servants worked there so the main kitchen could stay a place for cooking. You will meet it in old novels, period films, and house tours — not in a modern Taiwan apartment, which simply does not keep a room for that. A is for storing food. A scullery is for washing and dirty work. Though actually some old houses still have the room, and people still use the word for it; it just sounds historical the moment you say it.

組成Inherited from Middle English squylerie, from Anglo-Norman squillerie (the office of the servant in charge of plates), from escuele (bowl, dish), from Latin scutella.

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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。

scullerynoun/ˈskʌləɹi/

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    archaicA small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.

    • Opposite the signal the line on one side is shut in by a high blank wall; on the other side are houses, but coming below the butt-end of a scullery the signal does not happen to be visible from any road or from any window.
    • With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

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