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Think of the short piece of cloth worn closest to the skin, under your trousers — the layer nobody else sees. The two senses here are not really two meanings but two dialects: British English points the word at the men's kind, American English lets it cover anyone.
可以想成：貼著皮膚、穿在長褲底下的那一件短短的布——別人看不到的那一層。這個字的兩個義項與其說是兩種意思，不如說是兩…更多收起
可以想成：貼著皮膚、穿在長褲底下的那一件短短的布——別人看不到的那一層。這個字的兩個義項與其說是兩種意思，不如說是兩地的用法差別：英式英語用它專指男生穿的那種，美式英語則男女老少都可以用它。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。
underpantsnoun/ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌpænts/
- 1
Underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.
- The Italian fashion of wearing red underpants on December 31 is becoming popular, reputedly to guarantee luck for the new year.
- She takes off her fatigue pants and throws them in the washer and the surgical greens and her bloodstained bra and turns on the machine. She is wearing socks and underpants and a .38 Special with a shrouded hammer in an ankle holster.
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。