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To toilet-train a child is to teach them, over weeks or months, to use the toilet instead of wearing . It is what parents do with a two- or three-year-old, and it is also what you do with a puppy or a kitten, though for animals many people say house-train instead.
To toilet-train a child is to teach them, over weeks or months, to use the toilet instead of wearing nappiestoilet-train一個小孩，就是花幾週或幾個月教他們用馬桶，而不是包尿布 It is what parents do with a two- or three-year-old這是父母對兩三歲小孩會做的事 and it is also what you do with a puppy or a kitten也是你會對小狗或小貓做的事 though for animals many people say house-train instead不過對動物，很多人會改說house-train
The verb is usually transitive — you toilet-train someone — and you will meet the passive and the past participle far more often than the plain form: he's toilet-trained yet?, she was toilet-trained at two, not fully toilet-trained. As an adjective, toilet-trained describes the finished state.
The verb is usually transitive這個動詞通常是及物的 — you toilet-train someone ———你toilet-train某人—— and you will meet the passive and the past participle far more often than the plain form而你遇到被動式和過去分詞的機會，遠比原形動詞多得多 he's toilet-trained yet?, she was toilet-trained at two, not fully toilet-trained像he's toilet-trained yet?、she was toilet-trained at two、not fully toilet-trained As an adjective, toilet-trained describes the finished state當形容詞用時，toilet-trained描述的是已經完成的狀態
The activity itself is toilet training, written as two words with no , and that noun is the form you will hear most: how's the toilet training going?
The activity itself is toilet training這件事本身叫做toilet training written as two words with no hyphen寫成兩個字，沒有連字號 and that noun is the form you will hear most而這個名詞形式是你最常聽到的 how's the toilet training going?像how's the toilet training going?
Americans more often say , which sounds warmer and more ; British speakers use both. The is not fixed — toilet train also appears — but is safe.
Americans more often say potty-train美國人比較常說potty-train which sounds warmer and more childlike聽起來比較溫暖、比較童趣 British speakers use both英式英語兩種都會用 The hyphen is not fixed連字號不是固定的 — toilet train also appears ———toilet train這樣沒有連字號的寫法也會出現—— but hyphenating is safe但加連字號比較保險
組成toilet + train. The train here is the ordinary "teach by repeating until it becomes a habit" sense — the same train as in training a dog or training for a race, not the railway one.
同家族的字
- house-trainbuilt the same way; the usual word when it is a dog or cat rather than a child
- potty-trainthe same idea with the child's word for the toilet; more common in American English
- trainingthe same train, teaching by repetition, in its noun form
原始詞典資料2 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。
toilet-trainverb
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To train (a child) to use the toilet.
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To train (a domestic animal) to defecate and urinate in certain designated places.
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。