cupboard
cupboard — 名詞
- cupboardsingular
- cupboardsplural
1. a free-standing or built-in container with one or more doors and shelves inside,
櫥櫃
有門和層架的收納家具
a free-standing or built-in container with one or more doors and shelves inside, where you keep things such as food, kitchen tools, clothes, or household supplies
Priya opened the kitchen cupboard to get a bowl for the soup.
Priya 打開廚房櫥櫃，想拿一個碗來盛湯。
collocation: kitchen cupboard
The cupboard in the hallway is full of winter coats and umbrellas.
走廊的櫥櫃裡放滿了冬天的大衣和雨傘。
prepositional phrase: cupboard in [room]
We keep the cleaning supplies in the cupboard under the stairs.
我們把清潔用品放在樓梯下的櫥櫃裡。
collocation: cupboard under the stairs
Diego organised the food cupboard and threw away all the old spices.
Diego 整理了食品櫃，把過期的香料都丟掉了。
collocation: food cupboard
- kitchen cupboard
- bathroom cupboard
- food cupboard
- cupboard door
- cupboard shelf
- built-in cupboard
- wall cupboard
- cupboard under the stairs
- cabinet
often implies a more formal or specialised piece of furniture (e.g. filing cabinet, display cabinet), while 'cupboard' is the everyday storage term
- closet
the North American term for a built-in storage space; in British English, 'cupboard' covers this meaning
- pantry
specifically a room or large cupboard for storing food, not general household items
- open shelf
a shelf without a door, whereas a cupboard has doors that close
用法筆記
In British English, 'cupboard' can also refer to a built-in wall storage space where American English typically uses 'closet'. A 'kitchen cupboard' is understood the same way in both varieties.
常見錯誤
the cupboard is bare
idiomused to say that there is no food, money, or other supplies left
櫥櫃空空如也（指沒有食物、錢或物資了）
We need to go shopping — the cupboard is bare and there is nothing for dinner tonight.
cupboard love
idiomAffection shown by someone, often a child, only to get something they want.
有所圖謀的愛
Maya gave her dad a big hug, but it was just cupboard love for candy.
Is your cat's purring cupboard love because she wants food?
A secret from the past that is shocking or embarrassing and that someone wants to hide.
不可告人的秘密
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard, like Uncle Joe's old scandal.
The politician tried to keep his skeleton in the cupboard, but reporters found out.
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- cupboard door
- cupboard space
- cupboard lock
- cupboard handle
常用片語
- cupboard under the stairs
- kitchen cupboard
- bedroom cupboard
- built-in cupboard
介系詞搭配
- in the cupboard
- on the cupboard shelf
- inside the cupboard