chad

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chad — 名詞

  • chadsingular
  • chadsplural

1. a small bit of paper or thin card cut out by a hole punch

1.名詞B2
釋義

打洞紙屑

打孔後掉下的小紙片

a small bit of paper or thin card cut out by a hole punch

例句

Mina brushed the chads off the desk after punching fifty name tags.

Mina 打完五十張名牌後，把桌上的打洞紙屑刷掉了。

brush chads off + surface after punching

A single chad jammed the card reader during the school election.

學校選舉時，一小片打洞紙屑卡住了讀卡機。

a chad jammed + machine

常見搭配
  • hanging chad
  • loose chads
  • a tray of chads
  • brush away chads
  • a chad jammed the reader
同義詞
  • paper scrap

    broader and less exact — it can mean any small leftover piece of paper

  • punch-out

    more technical or manufacturing-oriented than the office and ballot sense of 'chad'

文法句型

a chad + in/on + [machine/ballot]

a tray/pile of chads

hanging chad

用法筆記

Usually countable when you mean one piece or several pieces left by punching holes. In election reporting, a 'hanging chad' is one that is still partly attached to the ballot.

常見錯誤

There was chad all over the desk.
There were chads all over the desk.
when many pieces are scattered around, English normally uses the plural count noun.
One chads was stuck in the slot.
One chad was stuck in the slot.
after 'one', use the singular form.

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • hanging chad
  • loose chad
  • tray of chads

常用片語

  • brush away chads
  • a chad jammed the reader
  • empty a tray of chads

介系詞搭配

  • on the ballot
  • in the reader
  • from the hole punch