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Picture the thick cloth hanging by the shower: its whole purpose is to take water off a surface — your skin, your hair, a wet plate. Name the cloth and you have the noun; do what the cloth is for and you have the verb.
可以想成：掛在浴室裡那條厚厚的布——它存在的唯一目的，就是把水從一個表面帶走：你的皮膚、你的頭髮、一個剛洗好的盤子。…更多收起
可以想成：掛在浴室裡那條厚厚的布——它存在的唯一目的，就是把水從一個表面帶走：你的皮膚、你的頭髮、一個剛洗好的盤子。指那塊布，就是名詞；做那塊布該做的事，就是動詞。原始詞典資料5 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。
towelnoun/ˈtaʊ̯əl/
- 1
A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.
- He needed a towel for wiping the slippery floor.
towelverb/ˈtaʊ̯əl/
- 1
To dry by using a towel.
- He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.
- 2
To hit with a towel.
- 3
To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
- We would open the windows, towel the door, and turn my bedroom into an Allman Brothers concert.
- 4
obsoletedialectalTo beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".
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。