mice
mice — noun
1. the form of the noun 'mouse' used when talking about more than one mouse — this
1.名詞A2
釋義
the form of the noun 'mouse' used when talking about more than one mouse — this applies both to the small animal and, in everyday use, to the computer device.
例句
Mira heard scratching noises and realised mice had got into the kitchen cupboard.
irregular plural: mice (not *mouses)
The laboratory keeps a dozen mice in separate cages for the sleep study.
Daichi uses wireless mice for both his desktop and his laptop computer.
Baraka found droppings in the shed and guessed field mice had nested there.
用法筆記
Mice is the only standard plural of mouse. For computer pointing devices, mouses is occasionally used in informal technical talk, but mice is still far more common even in that context.
常見錯誤
❌I saw three mouses running across the barn floor.
✅I saw three mice running across the barn floor.
💡The plural of 'mouse' is 'mice', an irregular form that does not add -s or -es.