sweep sth with a broom
with a broom 表示所用的工具，工具前用不定冠词 a。
She swept the porch with a broom.
她用扫帚扫了门廊。
扫帚；笤帚
brooms — plural of broom
冰壶刷；扫冰刷；金雀花；金雀花属灌木；帚石南；欧石南；一种家用工具,末端有纤维束,用于清扫；用于清扫的工具；长柄上绑有稻草或树枝
A household cleaning tool with a long handle and a head of stiff fibers or bristles, used for sweeping.
一种家用工具,末端有纤维束,用于清扫
A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
用于清扫的工具；长柄上绑有稻草或树枝
a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
用于冰壶比赛中清扫冰面的工具；清扫者
An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
各种金雀花属或刺槐属灌木,具有细长枝条和黄色花序
any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
豆科家族中几种黄花灌木,枝条长而硬,叶子小或稀少,用于制作家用工具
Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
常见的旧大陆石楠,种类繁多；在北半球广泛种植的低矮常绿植物
common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
Every morning, the gardener uses a broom to sweep the leaves off the driveway.
每天早晨，园丁用一把扫帚清扫车道上的落叶。
用法提示：此处broom是单数可数名词，意为“扫帚”，作use的宾语，表示清扫工具。
She leaned the broom against the wall and sat down to rest.
她把扫帚靠在墙上，坐下来休息。
用法提示：此处broom是单数可数名词，作lean的宾语，指具体的清扫工具。
The brooms in the storage room are all worn out, so we need new ones.
储藏室里的那些扫帚都磨损了，所以我们需要新的。
用法提示：此处brooms是broom的复数形式，作主语，指多把扫帚。
with a broom 表示所用的工具，工具前用不定冠词 a。
She swept the porch with a broom.
她用扫帚扫了门廊。
use ... to do sth 表示“用某物做某事”，to 后接动词原形。
He used a broom to sweep up the broken glass.
他用扫帚把碎玻璃扫了起来。
for + 动名词说明扫帚的用途或适用场合。
This is a good broom for sweeping the stairs.
这是一把适合扫楼梯的好扫帚。
grammar · medium
易错句子There are two broom in the closet.
正确表达There are two brooms in the closet.
英语可数名词表示两个或以上时必须用复数形式 brooms；汉语名词本身不随数量变化，靠数词“两把”表意，所以学习者容易漏掉词尾的 -s。
grammar · medium
易错句子She swept the floor with broom.
正确表达She swept the floor with a broom.
broom 是可数名词，单数形式前必须加冠词 a/an；汉语没有冠词，因此容易直接说出光杆名词 broom。
grammar · medium
易错句子He swept the porch by a broom.
正确表达He swept the porch with a broom.
表示“用某种具体工具”时要用介词 with；by 后接的是抽象手段或交通工具（如 by hand, by bus），汉语的“用”对应多个英语介词，学习者常一概译成 by，属典型中式英语。
用扫帚打扫
She swept the kitchen floor with a broom.
她用扫帚扫了厨房的地板。
扫帚柜；放清洁用具的杂物柜
The cleaning supplies are kept in the broom closet.
清洁用品放在扫帚柜里。
扫帚柄
He leaned the broom handle against the wall.
他把扫帚柄靠在墙上。
推式宽头扫帚
Use a push broom to clear the wide driveway.
用推式宽头扫帚清扫宽阔的车道。
冰壶刷；扫冰刷
She swept the ice hard with her curling broom.
她用冰壶刷使劲擦扫冰面。
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