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Fixed onto a wall, rather than standing on the floor or sitting on a table. You meet it most in shops, catalogues, and instruction manuals: a wall-mounted air , a wall-mounted TV, a wall-mounted fan, a wall-mounted heater. The word carries the idea that it was put there properly, with screws or a bracket — not just leaning or hanging on a nail.
Fixed onto a wall固定裝在牆上,rather than standing on the floor or sitting on a table而不是站在地上或放在桌上。You meet it most in shops, catalogues, and instruction manuals你最常在店裡、型錄、說明書裡看到它:a wall-mounted air conditioner, a wall-mounted TV, a wall-mounted fan, a wall-mounted heater像wall-mounted air conditioner、wall-mounted TV、wall-mounted fan、wall-mounted heater。The word carries the idea that it was put there properly這個字帶有「安裝得很正式」的意思——with screws or a bracket用螺絲或支架裝上去,not just leaning or hanging on a nail不是隨便靠著或掛在一根釘子上
It is a compound adjective, so it almost always sits in front of the noun, and it is usually there. You can also say a thing "is wall-mounted" after the verb be.
It is a compound adjective它是個複合形容詞,so it almost always sits in front of the noun所以幾乎總是放在名詞前面,and it is usually hyphenated there而且通常會加連字號。You can also say a thing "is wall-mounted"你也可以說某個東西「is wall-mounted」 after the verb be放在be動詞後面
There is a whole family built the same way — ceiling-mounted, floor-mounted, pole-mounted — so once you know this one you can read the others. It sounds a little technical or commercial; in a normal chat you would just say "on the wall".
There is a whole family built the same way還有一整組用同樣方式組成的字——ceiling-mounted, floor-mounted, pole-mounted像ceiling-mounted、floor-mounted、pole-mounted,so once you know this one you can read the others所以學會這一個,其他的你就看得懂了。It sounds a little technical or commercial它聽起來有點技術性或商業感;in a normal chat you would just say "on the wall"平常聊天你就直接說「on the wall」就好
組成wall + mounted. To mount something is to fix it firmly in place on a support; the -ed makes it a description of the thing that has been fixed.
同家族的字
- mountthe verb inside it — to fix something firmly onto a support
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。
wall-mountedadj
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Mounted on a wall; attached to a wall.
- A wall-mounted table is the ideal, flexible solution wherever your space is limited.
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。