chopstick 筷子 — 中文意思、英文定義、例句

1.名詞A2

釋義

筷子

用於夾取食物的成對細長餐具

A thin stick, always used in pairs, for picking up and holding food — common in East Asian dining.

例句

Yuki showed her young nephew the right way to hold chopsticks at the dinner table.

Yuki 在餐桌旁教年幼的姪子如何正確使用筷子。

almost always plural: 'chopsticks', not 'a chopstick'

The small restaurant had a box of clean chopsticks near the front door.

那間小餐館在前門旁放了一盒乾淨的筷子。

collocation: clean chopsticks / wooden chopsticks

a pair of chopsticks

eat (food) with chopsticks

pick up (food) with chopsticks

Almost always used in the plural form 'chopsticks'. The singular 'chopstick' is rare and refers to just one stick from a pair.

❌I ate rice with a chopstick.

✅I ate rice with chopsticks.

💡the word is almost always plural, even when talking about one pair.

❌She used chopstick to eat noodles.

✅She used chopsticks to eat noodles.

💡always use the plural form.

chopstick