• n. 單片眼鏡；單眼繃帶

mono-,單個的，-oc,眼睛，詞源同eye,ocular,binocular.

monocle (n.)

"single eyeglass," 1886, from French monocle, noun use of adjective monocle "one-eyed, blind in one eye" (13c.), from Late Latin monoculus "one-eyed," from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + Latin oculus "eye" (see eye (n.)).

That this, a hybrid, a Gallicism, and a word with no obvious meaning to the Englishman who hears it for the first time, should have ousted the entirely satisfactory eyeglass is a melancholy illustration of the popular taste in language. [Fowler]

1. The old lady could not read clearly without her monocle.

這位婆婆若不戴上她的單片眼鏡，便無法閱讀。

來自辭典例句

2. A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in mind's eye.

好挖苦人的人,是在心目中戴上單片眼鏡兒看世事的人.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)