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Tweezers are a small tool for picking up or pulling out things too tiny for your fingers. Two narrow strips of metal are joined at one end, so when you squeeze the loose ends they close together and grip.
Tweezers鑷子 are a small tool是一種小工具 for picking up or pulling out things too tiny for your fingers用來夾起或拔出手指拿不住的小東西. Two narrow strips of metal兩條細長的金屬片 are joined at one end在一端連接在一起, so所以 when you squeeze the loose ends當你捏緊另一端時 they close together and grip它們會合起來夾住東西.
People use them to pull out hairs from their , to get a splinter or a piece of glass out of skin, to hold a small part while gluing a model, and in laboratories to move tiny things.
People use them人們用它 to pull out hairs from their eyebrows來拔眉毛, to get a splinter or a piece of glass out of skin把刺或玻璃碎片從皮膚裡挑出來, to hold a small part while gluing a model黏模型時固定小零件, and in laboratories to move tiny things還有在實驗室裡移動細小的東西.
Like scissors, trousers and glasses, this word is always plural because the thing has two matching halves: you say 'the tweezers are in the drawer', and 'some tweezers' or 'a pair of tweezers' — never 'a tweezer'. In everyday speech people often just say 'the tweezers' for the pair.
Like scissors, trousers and glasses就像 scissors（剪刀）、trousers（褲子）、glasses（眼鏡）一樣, this word is always plural這個字永遠是複數 because the thing has two matching halves因為東西有兩個對稱的部分: you say 'the tweezers are in the drawer'要說「the tweezers are in the drawer」, and 'some tweezers' or 'a pair of tweezers'也可以說「some tweezers」或「a pair of tweezers」 — never 'a tweezer'絕不會說「a tweezer」. In everyday speech日常口語裡 people often just say 'the tweezers'大家常常直接說「the tweezers」 for the pair來指這一整支.
There is also a verb: to tweeze, meaning to pull hair out with tweezers, which is mostly American and mostly about . Careful with the sound: it ends in a z sound, TWEE-zerz, and the first part rhymes with 'knees'.
There is also a verb還有一個動詞: to tweeze to tweeze, meaning to pull hair out with tweezers意思是用鑷子拔毛, which is mostly American and mostly about eyebrows主要是美式用法，而且大多是講拔眉毛. Careful with the sound發音要注意: it ends in a z sound字尾是 z 的音, TWEE-zerz唸 TWEE-zerz, and the first part rhymes with 'knees'前半部跟 'knees' 押韻.
組成A long chain: the plural of an old word tweeser, which came from tweese, a shortened form of etwee — from French étui, meaning a small case for keeping little tools in. So the word first named the box, and then moved to the tool inside it. The final -s copies the shape of other two-part tools: nippers, pincers, pliers, scissors.
原始詞典資料1 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。
tweezersnoun/ˈtwizəɹz/
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A small pincerlike instrument, usually made of metal, used for handling or picking up small objects (such as postage stamps), plucking out (plucking) hairs, pulling out slivers, etc.
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。