(一般作 chopsticks)each of a pair of small, thin, tapered sticks of wood, ivory, or plastic, held together in one hand and used as eating utensils, especially by the Chinese, the Japanese, and other people in east Asia 筷子
语源
late 17th cent.: pidgin English, from chop 'quick' + stick, translating Chinese dialect kuaìzi, literally 'nimble ones'. Compare with chop-chop