1. 1訓練小孩上廁所、戒尿布(的過程)

    The process of teaching a small child to use the toilet instead of wearing () — the weeks or months of practice, accidents, and praise. It is a noun: "Toilet-training took us six months," "We're starting toilet-training next month." It can also be the -ing form of the verb: "I'm toilet-training my son." Notice who does what — the parent does the toilet-training, the child gets toilet-trained. Ordinary family and parenting language; you'll see it in baby books, on parenting websites, and hear it between tired parents. Americans commonly say 'potty-training'. Also used of pets, mainly cats.

    toilet-training 是教小孩用馬桶、不用尿布的過程,包括好幾個星期或好幾個月的練習、中途的意外,還有大人的稱讚。它可以當名詞,也可以當動詞的 -ing 形式。

    要注意誰做、誰被做。大人是做這件事的人,所以說 「do the toilet-training」;小孩是被訓練的人,所以說 「get toilet-trained」。這是親子和育兒的用語,常出現在育兒書和育兒網站,也是累壞了的爸媽之間會聊的話題。美國人比較常說 potty-training。這個字也可以用在寵物身上,主要是貓。

組成toilet + training. 'Training' is the noun from 'train' meaning to teach a skill through practice — the same word as in job training or dog training.

同家族的字

  • trainthe verb it comes from: to teach a skill by practice
  • toilet-trainedthe finished state that toilet-training aims at

原始詞典資料1 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。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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