toilet

英 ['tɒɪlɪt] 美 ['tɔɪlət]

解释

※ 提供单词"toilet"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

toilet 梳妆，打扮，厕所，卫生间

来自 toil,网，-et,小词后缀。字面意思即小网，引申词义小袋子，后用于指厕所挂衣服或化妆品的网兜或袋子，引申词义梳妆，打扮，梳妆室，并最终主要用于指厕所，卫生间。

toilet (n.): 1530s, earliest in English in an obsolete sense "cover or bag for clothes," from Middle French toilette "a cloth; a bag for clothes," diminutive of toile "cloth, net" (see toil (n.2)). Toilet acquired an association with upper class dressing by 18c., through the specific sense "a fine cloth cover on the dressing table for the articles spread upon it;" thence "the articles, collectively, used in dressing" (mirror, bottles, brushes, combs, etc.). Subsequent sense evolution in English (mostly following French uses) is to "act or process of dressing," especially the dressing and powdering of the hair (1680s); then "a dressing room" (1819), especially one with a lavatory attached; then "lavatory or porcelain plumbing fixture" (1895), an American euphemistic use.

Toilet paper is attested from 1884 (the Middle English equivalent was arse-wisp). Toilet training is recorded from 1940.

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1. The original kitchen was sandwiched between the breakfast room and the toilet.: 厨房最初夹在早餐厅和厕所之间。

4. He was found trying to flush banknotes down the toilet.: 他试图把钞票从马桶里冲走时被发现。