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A urinal is the toilet made for men to pee into while standing up. It is usually a bowl or a shallow basin fixed to the wall, sometimes just a long trough that several men share, and you find them in the men's room of schools, stations, restaurants, and bars. Women's toilets do not normally have them.
A urinal isA urinal是 the toilet made for men to pee into while standing up設計給男生站著尿尿用的馬桶。It它 is usually a bowl or a shallow basin fixed to the wall通常是固定在牆上的一個盆或淺淺的槽, sometimes just a long trough that several men share有時候就是一整條好幾個男生共用的長槽, and而 you find them in the men's room你會在男廁裡找到它們 of schools, stations, restaurants, and bars學校、車站、餐廳和酒吧的。Women's toilets do not normally have them女廁通常不會有這個。
The word is neutral and completely usable in public — a cleaner, a , or a sign on a wall will all say urinal — but because the topic is toilets, people often just say "the men's room" instead of naming the fixture.
The word is neutral and completely usable in public這個字是中性的，在公開場合完全可以用——a cleaner, a plumber, or a sign on a wall清潔人員、水電工，或牆上的標示 will all say urinal都會直接寫urinal——but但 because the topic is toilets因為主題是廁所, people often just say "the men's room"大家常常會直接說「the men's room」 instead of naming the fixture而不去指名這個設備。
In hospitals there is a second, older use: a portable urinal is a bottle-shaped container that a patient who cannot get out of bed pees into. British and American English agree on both meanings.
In hospitals在醫院裡 there is a second, older use還有第二種、比較舊的用法：a portable urinala portable urinal is a bottle-shaped container是一種瓶狀的容器 that a patient who cannot get out of bed pees into讓沒辦法下床的病人尿在裡面。British and American English英式和美式英文 agree on both meanings在這兩個意思上是一致的。
Pronunciation is worth : most speakers say YOOR-in-al, with the stress on the first part, though you will also hear yoo-RY-nal from some older or British speakers.
Pronunciation is worth practising發音值得練習：most speakers say大部分人講 YOOR-in-alYOOR-in-al, with the stress on the first part重音在第一個音節, though you will also hear不過你也會聽到 yoo-RY-nalyoo-RY-nal from some older or British speakers一些年紀較大或英式的人講。
組成From Latin ūrīnālis "to do with urine", through Old French urinal, which meant a vessel for urinating. So the word started life as the name of a container, and only became the name of the wall fixture around 1851, when modern plumbing arrived.
原始詞典資料8 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。
urinalnoun詞源 1/jʊəˈraɪnəl/
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A device or fixture used for urination, particularly
- This was the second time in the last few months that she was asked to install a urinal in a luxury residential project, and she said she knows many other designers and architects who have been specifying home urinals in their projects.
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historicalalchemymedicinepseudoscienceA device or fixture used for urination
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obsoleteA device or fixture used for urination
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A device or fixture used for urination
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A device or fixture used for urination
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obsoletechemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAny oblong glass vessel shaped like the old alchemist's urinal.
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obsoleteA room or structure used for urination: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
urinaladj詞源 2/jʊəˈraɪnəl/
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Synonym of urinary.
- If on the other hand it is to be used by a congregation, which as a rule, only occupy their church once, twice or three times a week, then I would suggest where it can be obtained that an improved “water closet” be used, and by this I mean a urinal and fecal basin, which can be kept clean by liberal flushing with water after each time it is used, and so trapped and ventilated as to absolutely protect the room in which it is placed from any contamination whatever.[…]This same closet can be arranged for urinal purposes by having the lid of the seat for each person attached to a hinge so that it can be raised up when desired to be used for micturation^([sic]) only.
- Q. What amount, in cubic feet, would there be in Port Huron for one year, of fecal and urinal discharge into the sewers?
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。