[说明]equipment是不可数名词，作“装备”，“设备”解。不能说equipments或an equipment。

    例如：The building is supplied with modern office equipment.

       这幢楼配备了现代化的办公设备。

       You will be satisfied with the kitchen equipment here.

       你一定会对这里的厨卫设备感到满意。

       I need three pieces of equipment.

       我需要三件设备。

We have lots of factories with modern equipment.

我们拥有许多设备现代化的工厂。

Radar equipment helps us a lot in our daily life.

雷达装置在日常生活中颇有用处。

 

下列名词常用作不可数名词：

accommodation, advice, baggage, behavior, bread, cash, cloth, clothing, coal, equipment, fun, furniture, grass, harm, information, ink, knowledge, labour, laughter, leisure, luck, lightning, living, luggage, machinery, meat, money, news, paper, permission, popularity, progress, rice, scenery, soap, sugar, tea, traffic, travel, trouble, thunder, weather, work等。