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A sickbag is the small paper bag you find tucked in the seat pocket on a plane, for people to vomit into if they feel ill. You also see them on boats and long-distance coaches, and in hospitals. The bag has a stiff top so you can hold it open, and it is lined so nothing leaks. It is a British-flavoured word, because British English uses "sick" as a noun and a verb for vomit ("he was sick", "there's sick on the floor"); Americans are more likely to say airsickness bag, air sickness bag, or barf bag, which is . You will see the word written three ways — sickbag, sick bag, and sick-bag — and all are accepted; on planes the printed label usually says something more polite. There is also a joking use: people say something "needs a sickbag" or "pass the sickbag" when a film or a speech is so sweet or so false that it makes them feel ill. That use is friendly and rude at the same time, and it belongs in conversation, not in writing.
嘔吐袋(飛機上的清潔袋)
組成sick + bag. In British English sick on its own can mean vomit, so a sickbag is literally a bag for the sick — for the stuff, not for the person.
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。
sickbagnoun
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Synonym of sickness bag
- By the time he got back to Nashville, he had written the rest of the song on the back of a sickbag from the airplane.
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。