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Victuals means food and drink — the things people eat, thought of as supplies. It is a plural noun and it almost always appears in the plural: 'they packed victuals for the journey', 'the victuals ran low'. Like the verb, it is said 'VIT-ulz', as though spelled vittles, which is the informal spelling you will also see. This word has two lives now. In old writing — sea voyages, sieges, pioneer stories, the Bible in older translations — it is the plain, serious word for provisions carried or stored. In modern use it survives mainly as a word: rustic, , sometimes deliberately old-fashioned or countryish. American Southern and Western speech kept vittles alive, and a restaurant menu or a cartoon cowboy might say 'come and get your vittles' to sound folksy and warm. So if you meet it today, ask which one is happening: history, or a person playing at history. What victuals is not is a neutral everyday word — nobody says 'I bought victuals at the supermarket' with a straight face.
食物、糧食（複數；讀作 VIT-ulz。舊時的「糧秣、口糧」用語，現代多帶懷舊、鄉土或戲謔的味道）
組成From Middle English vitaile, from Old French vitaille 'food, provisions', from Late Latin vīctuālia, from Latin vīctus 'nourishment, sustenance'. The silent c was added later to make the English look more Latin.
原始詞典資料2 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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。