ESL杰夫的一天 第113期:睡前准备和睡觉讲解(5)

 To hamper¹, as a verb, means something different. 动词“hamper”的意思又有所不同。

To hamper someone means to get in their way — to prevent them from doing something. “To hamper someone”的意思是“阻碍某人”——阻止某人做某事。

But as a noun, a hamper, or a clothes hamper, 但是作为名词，“a hamper”或“a clothes hamper”，

is a place, usually it's a big plastic box with a top on it, or it could be made of wood, and that's where you put your dirty clothes. 指的是一个地方，通常它是有盖的大塑料箱子，它也有可能是木制的，那是你放脏衣服的地方。

And then, at some point during the week, I hope, you wash your clothes so you can have clean clothes again. 然后，我希望在一周的某一天你会洗你的衣服，这样你又能有干净的衣服穿了。

Unless, of course, you're not married, in which case, if you are a man and single, you may not wash your clothes that much. 当然，如果你没有结婚，那样的话，如果你是单身男士，你可能并不会经常洗衣服。

Well, I have "my dirty clothes in my hamper," and since I don't have any clothes on, remember I have undressed, "I put on my pajamas²." 嗯，我把“脏衣服放进脏衣篮里，”因为我一丝不挂，我把衣服脱了，所以“我穿上了睡衣。”

Pajamas, "pajamas," are sometimes abbreviated³ as PJs, "PJ" PJs. 睡衣（pajamas）有时缩写为“PJs”.

Your pajamas, or PJs, are the clothes that you wear when you are going to bed. 睡衣或“PJs”是睡觉时穿的衣服。

1 hamper   

vt.妨碍，束缚，限制；n.(有盖的)大篮子

参考例句：

• There are some apples in a picnic hamper.在野餐用的大篮子里有许多苹果。
• The emergence of such problems seriously hamper the development of enterprises.这些问题的出现严重阻碍了企业的发展。

2 pajamas   

n.睡衣裤

参考例句：

• At bedtime,I take off my clothes and put on my pajamas.睡觉时，我脱去衣服，换上睡衣。
• He was wearing striped pajamas.他穿着带条纹的睡衣裤。

3 abbreviated   

adj. 简短的，省略的 动词abbreviate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He abbreviated so much that it was hard to understand his article. 他的文章缩写词使用太多，令人费解。
• The United States of America is commonly abbreviated to U.S.A.. 美利坚合众国常被缩略为U.S.A.。