shelf/cabinet架子/櫥櫃
shelf是單數名詞,指的是架子、擱板,通常是一片長方形架子,可以是置物架、書架等等...
但請注意!如果有多個架子,它的複數名詞是不規則變化:shelves。
Jack, could you help me to install the bookshelves over there?
Jack,你能幫我安裝那邊的書架嗎?
大家如果常看歐美電影的話,應該常常會看到劇中的男女主角頭痛(have a headache)時,就會走到浴室裡打開鏡子,從後面的櫥櫃拿一些阿斯匹林(aspirin)來吃吧?那樣的櫥櫃就是cabinet,或也可稱作medicine cabinet。
exhaust fan抽風扇
exhaust (v.) 抽乾;耗盡;排出(氣體)
exhausted (adj.) 筋疲力竭的
Instead of driving cars, we should take public transportations more. Otherwise the petroleum would be exhausted soon.
我們應該多搭乘大眾運輸工具來取來開車,否則世界上的石油很快地就會被耗盡。
Ruby has worked for 12 hours straight. She was too exhausted to even take a quick shower when she got home.
Ruby 今天完全沒有休息,一連工作了12個小時。當她到家時,她累到甚至連洗個快速的澡都沒辦法。
hairdryer吹風機
hand dryer烘手機
soap dispenser給皂機
dispense (vt.)分配、分發
Thanks to everyone’s contribution so that the government can buy enough food to dispense to the victims who suffered from the typhoon.
感謝大眾的捐贈,政府才能購買足夠的糧食分發給颱風的受災者。
沐浴用品類
soap香皂
shampoo洗髮乳
shower gel/body wash沐浴乳
gel (n.) 凝膠
conditioner潤髮乳
condition (n.) 狀態,所以能讓頭髮保持良好狀態的潤髮乳,英文就是 conditioner!