露西的一天 第35期:吃早飯講解(10)

Lucy scrubs her dishes, and then leaves "them in the dying rack to dry." 露西擦洗一遍餐具，然后放在“干燥架上晾干。”

To scrub, "scrub," as a verb means to clean, usually by moving your hand back and forth over what you are trying to clean. “scrub”作動詞，意思是清洗，通常需要手在要清洗的東西上來回摩擦。

It means to clean with using some muscle, we would say - using some energy - using some force to clean it. 也就是說需要用力清洗，需要能量和力氣。

There's also a noun, scrubs, with an "s" at the end, "scrubs," that means the clothing - the special clothing that doctors wear, especially doctors that are during surgery. “scrub”作名詞，在結尾加一個s，變成外科手術服(scrubs)，是指一種衣服，醫(yī)生穿的特殊衣服，通常是做外科手術時穿的。

They wear scrubs, that's what we call those pieces of special clothing. Often, it's blue or white clothing. 我們把他們穿的特殊的衣服叫作外科手術服。外科手術服通常是藍色或者白色的。

Lucy puts the dishes on the drying rack. 露西把餐具放在干燥架上。

The drying, "drying," rack, "rack," is a place where you can put the dishes so that they dry, and a drying rack is usually made of plastic or metal, 干燥(drying)架(rack)是放盤子的地方，盤子放在上邊可以晾干。干燥架通常是塑料或者金屬做的。

and it has places where you can put individual plates and usually a separate place for silverware, and you use it to dry the plates and the silverware. 干燥架通常有放單個盤子的地方，也可以把銀質餐具分開放，可以用來晾干盤子和銀質餐具。