Do you know where the whatchamacallit is?
你知道那个东西在哪里吗?
He bought a new whatchamacallit for his car.
他为他的车买了一个新的东西。
She used a whatchamacallit to open the bottle.
她用一个东西打开了瓶子。
I need the whatchamacallit to fix this machine.
我需要那个东西来修理这台机器。
Can you pass me the whatchamacallit on the table?
你能把桌子上的东西递给我吗?
I forget what the thing I need is called, so I just call it a whatchamacallit.
哎,在这种情况下,不就像我们在中文里说的“那个叫什么来啦”?
In English, if there’s something we can’t remember the name of, we can call it a ‘whatchamacallit’.
通常我们一时间忘了一样东西的名称时常说,那个什么来着,whatchamacallit.

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