trinket
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詞源[編輯]
古英語 trenket (「一種刀」)，因此可能指的是一種作裝飾的刀，可能源自trenchier (「切」)的一個古法語方言形式。對比trench。
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trinket (複數 trinkets)
- 小裝飾品；一小件珠寶
- That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.
- 她脖子上的那個鏈子肯定花了她好多錢。
- （不值錢的）玩意，小玩具
- It's only a little trinket, but it reminds her of him.
- 這就是一件小玩具，但是能讓我想起她。
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xxiii:
- There is no art about the Eiffel Tower. In no way can it be said to have contributed to the real beauty of the Exhibition. Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the Exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the Tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
- (航海) （三角帆船之類上掛的）三角帆
- (棄用) 刀，刀具
近義詞[編輯]
- (小裝飾品)： 參見Thesaurus:trinket
- (玩意)： 參見Thesaurus:trifle
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trinket (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 trinkets, 現在分詞 trinketing, 一般過去時及過去分詞 trinketed)
- (棄用) 給...小玩意
- 1991, Stan Hoig, Jesse Chisholm, Ambassador of the Plains:
- On June 26 the party of sun and wind - weathered visitors from the heart of the Texas plains , dressed in their blankets and buckskins , befeathered and trinketed , arrived at the capital city's Globe Hotel and took up residence there
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