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The visible things that come with a role or a way of life and announce it to everyone — the big office, the car, the title on the door, the robes, the bodyguards. Always plural, always with "the," and it points at the outward show rather than the substance.
The visible things that come with a role or a way of life and announce it to everyone trappings是伴隨某個身分或生活方式而來、向所有人宣告這個身分的那些看得見的東西 — the big office, the car, the title on the door, the robes, the bodyguards大辦公室、車子、門上的頭銜、袍子、保鑣。Always plural永遠是複數, always with "the,"前面永遠加「the」, and而 it points at the outward show rather than the substance指的是外在的排場，而不是實質內容。
That is the heart of the word: when someone says "the trappings of power" or "the trappings of success," they are usually hinting that the show may be all there is. "He had all the trappings of wealth but was drowning in debt" is the most typical shape it takes.
That is the heart of the word這就是這個字的核心: when someone says "the trappings of power" or "the trappings of success,"當有人說「the trappings of power權力的排場」或「the trappings of success成功的排場」 they他們 are usually hinting that the show may be all there is通常是在暗示那些排場可能就是全部了，沒有實質內容。"He had all the trappings of wealth but was drowning in debt"「He had all the trappings of wealth but was drowning in debt他擁有財富的一切排場，卻債台高築」 is the most typical shape it takes是最典型的用法。
It can be used — the trappings of office simply meaning what comes with the job — but even then a faint dryness to it. It is a slightly formal, writerly word; you would meet it in a newspaper or a novel more often than in speech.
It它 can be used neutrally也可以用得比較中性 — the trappings of office simply meaning what comes with the job「the trappings of office職位的排場」就只是指這個職位附帶而來的東西 — but但 even then a faint dryness clings to it即使如此還是帶著一絲淡淡的挖苦意味。It它 is a slightly formal, writerly word是個稍微正式、比較書面的字; you你 would meet it in a newspaper or a novel more often than in speech會在報紙或小說裡遇到它，比在口語裡多。
There is an older, plainer sense too, still used: the cloth and gear put on a horse for a ceremony.
There is an older, plainer sense too, still used還有一個比較古老、直白的意思，現在也還在用: the decorated cloth and gear put on a horse for a ceremony指典禮上裝飾馬匹用的布飾和配件。
組成From trapping, from an old sense of trap meaning to dress up or decorate — nothing to do with catching animals. That trap came through French from a word for cloth or covering, which is why the horse-decoration sense is the oldest one.
原始詞典資料4 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。
trappingsnoun詞源 1
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Clothing or equipment.
- He went through his belongings, gradually shedding the trappings of youth.
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Something which gives the appearance of something.
- Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
- Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
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Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。