Utensils, "utensils." If you go to a restaurant and you sit down and you don't have a spoon or a fork or a knife, 器皿(utensils)。如果你坐在飯店里,你沒有刀叉勺,
you would ask the waiter or waitress for some utensils, or you could just say, "I need some silverware." 你會向服務(wù)員要一些器皿,或者你就說,“我需要一些銀器。”
A silverware tray, "tray," is a place where you put the silverware—you put the utensils, the forks, the spoons, the knives—in a drawer. 銀碟(tray),是你放銀器的地方——你把器皿、刀叉勺放進(jìn)抽屜里。
And, usually a tray is like a little box that has holes in it for specific things. 而且,碟子一般類似于用來放專門物品的有洞小盒子。
That word, tray, can also be used to describe a small, flat piece of plastic or wood that you use to carry things on, like your dishes. 碟子這個字,也可以用來形容你用來端東西的、小又平的塑料或木質(zhì)盤子。
Well, I get my spoon, and I go out and I get my newspaper, which, of course, is what has the news, the sports, and the international and national news. 嗯,我拿到了調(diào)羹,然后去外面拿報紙,那上面當(dāng)然會有各種新聞——體育、國內(nèi)外新聞。
Many Americans like to read a newspaper in the morning, just like people all over the world do. 和世界其他國家的人一樣,很多美國人早上喜歡讀報。
I "sit down at the kitchen table" and I read the paper. 我“坐在餐桌旁”讀報。
Sometimes we call a newspaper just the paper. 有時我們把報紙簡稱為報。
Someone says, "I read it in the paper this morning," they mean the newspaper. 要是有人說“我今天早上在‘報’上看到的,”他們實際上是說在“報紙”上。