運動褲：pants的用法解析

The sky's fallin' on your head. The waves are crashin' over your little oars are about to snap. You just piss in your pants. You're cryin' for the harbor. So maybe you do what you gotta do to get out. You know, maybe you became a psychologist.

——Good Will Hunting

也許你正在暴風雨中。天色昏暗,海浪撞擊小船，槳就要斷了，你嚇尿了,迫切需要港口。這是你成爲心理醫生的原因。  

——《心靈捕手》

一、關於pants，你應該知道的用法有

n.

pant的名詞複數；褲子 trousers

The elastic in my pants has gone.

我褲子的鬆緊帶壞了。

v.

pant的第三人稱單數；喘氣 to breathe quickly with short breaths, usually with your mouth open, because you have been doing some physical exercise, or because it is very hot

She pants like a dog.

她總是像只狗狗一樣喘氣。

二、詞義辨析：以下詞彙都能表示“褲子”的意思

jeans, pants, slacks, shorts, trousers

這些名詞均含有“褲子”之意。

jeans指勞動布褲或牛仔褲。

pants常用詞，在美國，泛指各類褲子，在英國指襯褲或短褲。

slacks美國指比較寬鬆的便褲，英國人指婦女外面穿的長褲。

shorts指短褲或褲衩。

trousers指長褲，用於較正式場合。

三、你知道pants和哪些詞更搭嗎？

hot pants

緊身短褲;色鬼;熱切,迫不及待

sweat pants

n. 長運動褲

short pants

n. 短褲

toreador pants

n. 女用緊身褲

三、接下來，做個填詞遊戲吧

Then flip _____ over to iron the outside of that leg. 
然後翻過褲子，熨剛纔熨過的那條褲腿的外側。