运动裤：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

也许你正在暴风雨中。天色昏暗,海浪撞击小船，桨就要断了，你吓尿了,迫切需要港口。这是你成为心理医生的原因。  

——《心灵捕手》

一、关于pants，你应该知道的用法有

n.

pant的名词复数；裤子 trousers

The elastic in my pants has gone.

我裤子的松紧带坏了。

v.

pant的第三人称单数；喘气 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.

她总是像只狗狗一样喘气。

二、词义辨析：以下词汇都能表示“裤子”的意思

jeans, pants, slacks, shorts, trousers

这些名词均含有“裤子”之意。

jeans指劳动布裤或牛仔裤。

pants常用词，在美国，泛指各类裤子，在英国指衬裤或短裤。

slacks美国指比较宽松的便裤，英国人指妇女外面穿的长裤。

shorts指短裤或裤衩。

trousers指长裤，用于较正式场合。

三、你知道pants和哪些词更搭吗？

hot pants

紧身短裤;色鬼;热切,迫不及待

sweat pants

n. 长运动裤

short pants

n. 短裤

toreador pants

n. 女用紧身裤

三、接下来，做个填词游戏吧

Then flip _____ over to iron the outside of that leg. 
然后翻过裤子，熨刚才熨过的那条裤腿的外侧。