- 1保鮮盒(密封的塑膠盒)。Tupperware 原本是「特百惠」這個牌子,但英語裡已經變成保鮮盒的通稱,就像我們不管牌子都說「保鮮盒」一樣。
Tupperware is a brand of plastic food containers with lids that seal very tightly, so what is inside stays fresh and does not leak in your bag. But the useful thing for a is what has happened to the word: people say it for any container of that kind, whatever brand it really is. 'Put the leftovers in a Tupperware', 'bring your own Tupperware' — nobody checks the label. That is called a brand name becoming the general word, the same thing that happened with Post-it or Xerox. Because of that history, you see it both ways. Strictly it is a brand, so capital T and no plural, like a material: 'a piece of Tupperware', 'a Tupperware box', 'all my Tupperware'. In everyday speech people happily say 'a Tupperware' and 'two Tupperwares' and write it with a small t. Neither will make you sound wrong; the capital-T, no-plural version is safer in writing. One more piece of the picture: for decades the company sold at home parties, where a host invited friends over and someone demonstrated the containers — 'a Tupperware party' is a phrase you may meet in films.
組成Tupper + -ware. Named after Earl Tupper, the American businessman who invented the containers in 1942 and started the company. The ending -ware means 'goods of this kind', as in hardware, software, glassware, kitchenware.
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。
Tupperwarenoun
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A food-storage container (often plastic), or a set of such containers.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tupperware.
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