- 1訓練小孩上廁所、把尿把屎（狗貓則多說 house-train）。名詞是 toilet training，美式常說 potty-train。
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. 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 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? Americans more often say , which sounds warmer and more ; British speakers use both. The is not fixed — toilet train also appears — but is safe.
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，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。
toilet-trainverb
- 1
To train (a child) to use the toilet.
- 2
To train (a domestic animal) to defecate and urinate in certain designated places.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。