trousers

英 ['tra?z?z] 美['tra?z?z]

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復數:?trousers;形容詞:?trouser;

trousers 褲子

來自早期拼寫形式 trouzes,來自蘇格蘭蓋爾語 triubhas,緊身短馬褲，詞源同 trews,進一步詞源不詳。插入字母 r 為習慣性俗化，比較 tweezers 來自 tweeze.

trousers: trousers: [17] Trousers is a Gaelic contribution to English vocabulary. Irish trius and Scots Gaelic triubhas (singular nouns) denote ‘closefitting shorts’. They were borrowed into English in the 16th century as trouse or trews. The latter form has survived intact, but trouse, through the influence of drawers, was expanded into trousers.
=> trews
trousers (n.): "garment for men, covering the lower body and each leg separately," 1610s, earlier trouzes (1580s), extended from trouse (1570s), with plural ending typical of things in pairs, from Gaelic or Middle Irish triubhas "close-fitting shorts," of uncertain origin. Early recorded use of the word indicates the garment was regarded as Celtic: "A jellous wife was like an Irish trouze, alwayes close to a mans tayle" [1630]. The unexplained intrusive second -r- is perhaps by influence of drawers or other words in pairs ending in -ers.

1. His grey jersey and trousers were sodden with the rain.: 他的灰色針織毛衫和長褲全都被雨水淋透了。

2. He was wearing a stripy shirt and baggy blue trousers.: 他身著一件條紋襯衫和一條寬松的藍褲子。

3. My hands, boots and trousers were plastered with mud.: 我的雙手、靴子和褲子上都沾滿了泥巴。

5. He tried to tuck his flapping shirt inside his trousers.: 他設法把飄起的襯衫塞到褲子里。