crayon
crayon — 名詞
- crayonsingular
- crayonsplural
1. a short, thin stick made from coloured wax that children push across paper to ma
蠟筆
兒童畫畫用的彩色蠟製短棒
a short, thin stick made from coloured wax that children push across paper to make pictures or letters.
Folake handed her little brother a red crayon to finish the dragon.
Folake 遞了一支紅色蠟筆給弟弟，讓他畫完那條龍。
collocation: hand someone a [colour] crayon
The teacher emptied a tub of crayons onto the table for art class.
美術課時，老師把一整盒蠟筆倒在桌上。
collocation: a tub / box / packet of crayons
Mauricio kept breaking the tips of his crayons because he pressed too hard.
Mauricio 因為太用力，常常把蠟筆的尖端折斷。
There were broken crayons under every chair after the birthday party at Esme's house.
Esme 家生日派對結束後，每張椅子底下都散落著斷掉的蠟筆。
Jisoo chose a green crayon and carefully coloured the leaves on the tree.
Jisoo 挑了一支綠色蠟筆，小心地把樹上的葉子塗滿顏色。
- coloured pencil
pencil-shaped, sharpenable; different tool though sometimes loosely grouped with crayons.
- wax crayon
more explicit version of the same word; useful when distinguishing from oil pastels or chalk.
文法句型
a crayon
with a crayon
用法筆記
Subject is typically a child or a person drawing informally. Distinguish from sense-adjacent tools by material: crayons are wax, coloured pencils have wooden barrels, and chalk is dusty mineral.
常見錯誤
crayon — 動詞
- crayonpresent simple I / you / we / they
- crayons3rd person singular
- crayoning-ing form
- crayonedpast simple
1. to make a picture, mark, or shape on a surface using a wax crayon.
用蠟筆畫
以蠟筆在表面上塗畫或寫字
to make a picture, mark, or shape on a surface using a wax crayon.
Selim crayoned a large yellow sun in the corner of the kitchen wall.
Selim 在廚房牆角用蠟筆畫了一個大大的黃色太陽。
transitive: crayon + object (the thing drawn)
Talia spent the whole afternoon crayoning pictures of cats for her grandmother.
Talia 整個下午都在用蠟筆畫貓咪，要送給奶奶。
The children had crayoned all over the back of the wedding invitation.
那群孩子把婚禮邀請函的背面用蠟筆塗得亂七八糟。
Rohan crayoned his name in big purple letters at the top of the page.
Rohan 在那頁紙的最上方，用紫色蠟筆寫了大大的名字。
文法句型
crayon something
crayon on something
用法筆記
Subject is usually a child; the verb almost always describes children's drawing rather than adult artwork. When the surface (not the picture) is the focus, use 'on' (crayon on the wall).