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Undershorts are men's or boys' — the short garment worn under trousers. Like trousers and shorts themselves, the word is always plural in shape: a pair of undershorts, my undershorts are in the wash. You cannot have 'an undershort'. It is American, and it feels slightly formal, careful, or old-fashioned — the word a clothing catalogue or a school packing list would use. In real speech Americans say underwear, boxers, or briefs; British speakers say pants or boxers. So learn undershorts to recognise it, and use 'underwear' when you speak. Note also the trap in 'pants': in the US, pants means trousers, so "he was in his pants" is a normal sentence there and a funny one in Britain, where pants means underwear.
男用內褲。台灣就說「內褲」;平常英文說 underwear 或 boxers 更自然。
組成under- (beneath) + shorts, made on the model of underpants. 'Shorts' are short trousers, so undershorts are the short ones worn underneath.
同家族的字
- underpantssame under- + a trouser word, the word this one was modelled on
- shortsthe second half of the word, meaning short trousers
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。
undershortsnoun
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datedUnderpants, type of underwear worn in skin contact with the hip portion of the body, small enough to be worn invisibly under shorts. Typically refers to male, not female, underpants.
- I have one clean pair of undershorts.
- I have to buy more undershorts.
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。