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今天MJ English 要帶你一次搞懂英文裡的「量詞」怎麼用：

• 「a cup of」和「a glass of」什麼差別？
• 「two coffees」到底算錯還是口語？
• a piece of」跟「a slice of」有差嗎？
• 「a sheet of paper」 vs. 「a piece of paper」
• 特別形狀的量詞「a bar / a cake / a roll」
• 群體的量詞：a bunch / a herd / a school

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M: Welcome to MJ English. The other day I was just making a sandwich for lunch, super simple. And I grabbed a piece of cheese, then another piece, and it just got me thinking.
M：歡迎來到 MJ 英語。有天我中午在做個超簡單的三明治，拿了一片起司，接著又拿了一片，突然讓我開始思考。

J: About cheese.
J：是在想起司喔？

M: Yeah, but more about how we actually talk about quantity in English. Sometimes it's really easy, like one apple, two apples, done.
M：有啦，不過更是在想我們英文到底是怎麼表達「數量」的。有時候很簡單啊，像是一顆蘋果、兩顆蘋果，就搞定了。

J: Right, straightforward.
J：對啊，很直覺。

M: But then you get to stuff like coffee or paper, you wouldn't really say one coffee.
M：但遇到像是咖啡或是紙這種東西，你就不會說「一個咖啡」。

J: Or two papers usually.
J：或是「兩個紙」，這也怪怪的。

M: It's kind of a little puzzle, right? So English uses these special words, these counters, for things you can't just count easily, these uncountable things.
M：這其實是個小謎題耶。所以英文會用一些特別的詞，也就是「量詞」，來講這些不太能直接數的東西，也就是不可數名詞。

J: Exactly. The technical term is uncountable nouns.
J：沒錯，學術上就叫做「不可數名詞」。

M: So today, let's maybe unpack those words, break them down, make them hopefully a lot easier for you to understand and use.
M：所以今天，我們就來拆解這些用法，讓你聽得懂、學得會，用起來更順手！

J: That sounds like a great plan. And it's really useful stuff. Understanding these words makes your English sound much more natural.
J：這主意讚耶！這些內容超實用，搞懂這些量詞，你講英文會自然很多喔～

M: More like a native speaker, yeah.
M：就比較像母語人士那樣啦～

J: And it's not just about grammar rules from a book. It's really practical. It helps people understand exactly what you mean. Like when you're ordering food in the US maybe, or just talking about things you have at home.
J：這不是什麼硬梆梆的文法規則，而是很實用的東西。像是在美國點餐，或是在家聊天，這些量詞都能幫助你表達得更清楚。

M: Avoids confusion.
M：才不會讓人聽不懂啦。

J: Definitely. It helps avoid that confusion in just everyday chats.
J：真的，日常對話很需要這些清楚的表達。

M: Okay, so let's start exploring how we count things then. Basically, we have two main kinds of nouns in English. Some are easy to count, others, not so much.
M：好，那我們就開始聊聊英文是怎麼「數」東西的吧～基本上英文名詞有兩種：一種很好數，另一種就不太好數。

J: That's the core idea. You've got nouns like apples, chairs, things you can point to, right? One apple, two chairs. We call those countable nouns.
J：對，這是重點！像是蘋果啊、椅子啊這種能一顆一顆點的，我們就叫它「可數名詞」。

M: Okay. Countable, easy.
M：了解，可數名詞，好懂。

J: They have a singular form, one apple, and a plural form, two apples. But then you have other nouns. Think about water, or rice, or maybe information.
J：這類詞有單數（像 one apple）跟複數（像 two apples）。但有些詞就不行了，像是水、水煮飯、資訊這種。

M: Right. You can't really say one water or two rices.
M：對啊，你不會說「一個水」、「兩個飯」。

J: Exactly. You generally can't count them directly like that. These are uncountable nouns. And they usually don't have a plural form.
J：沒錯，這些沒辦法直接數，我們就稱它們是「不可數名詞」，通常也不會有複數形。

M: And that's where these special counting words or quantifiers come into play.
M：這時候，我們就要用到「量詞」或是「量的單位」啦。 <