trousers

指从腰部穿到膝盖或脚踝、两条裤腿分开的裤子，通常只用复数形式。

💡 记忆钩子

把腰到腿的部位想成被两条独立裤腿一起包住的一件衣物：这件衣物整体叫 trousers，但因为它分成左右两条腿，英语通常用复数形式来指“裤子”。

📝 学习建议

不要把 trousers 当作普通可数单数名词使用；一般不说 a trousers，而说 a pair of trousers。
先掌握“裤子”这一日常核心义，再注意它与英语中其他具体裤装词的区别。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 裤子

📖 一种从腰部向下覆盖身体、左右分成两条裤腿的衣物；英语通常把它看成一对相连的裤腿，所以用 trousers 这个复数形式表示一条裤子。

💡 常用搭配是 wear trousers、a pair of trousers 和 trousers that fit well。trousers 通常只用复数形式，不能像普通单数名词那样直接加 a；说数量时要用 pair。英式英语中它是日常常用词，而美式英语里 pants 更常见，trousers 仍然可以理解但语体稍正式或偏英式。

plural plural-only

These trousers are too long for me.

这条裤子对我来说太长了。

She bought a pair of black trousers for work.

她买了一条黑色裤子上班穿。

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 1 组

(usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately

同义词集: trousers pair of trousers pant

he had a sharp crease in his trousers

上位: garment 下位: bell-bottoms, bellbottom pants, bellbottom trousers, blue jeans, breeches, cords, corduroys, denim, flannel, gabardine, jeans, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers, pajama, pyjama, short pants, shorts, slacks, sweat pants, sweatpants, trunks, tweed, white

🌳 词源

源自更早的英语形式，最终与表示“腿部覆盖物”的古爱尔兰语和古法语词有关；词形中的复数结尾可能与成对衣物的表达习惯有关。

Attested since the 1610s, from the earlier form trouzes (attested since the 1580s), extended from trouse (1570s), with plural ending typical of things in pairs, from Middle Irish triubus (“close-fitting shorts”), from Old Irish tribus, of uncertain origin. The unexplained intrusive second -r- is perhaps due to the influence of drawers. Doublet of trews (“trousers”). Old Irish tribus is probably a borrowing of Anglo-Norman tribuz, trebuz, from Old French trebus, from Old Occitan trebucs, trabucs, from Late Latin trabrugi, tribuces, tubruci (“leg-coverings”), from an early Germanic language, perhaps Gothic *𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌱𐍂𐍉𐌺𐍃 (*þiuhbrōks) or Old High German diohbruoh (“loincloth, trousers”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þeuhabrōks (“loincloth, trousers”), a compound of Proto-Germanic *þeuhą (“thigh”) + *brōks (“leggings, trousers”), equivalent to thigh + breeches. Compare obsolete Modern German Diechbruch (“short legwear, knee breeches, loincloth”).

🔄 变式

trouser attributive

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