I wanted to have a suit made so I bought three and a half yards of cloth.
我想讓人給我做壹套衣服,所以我買了三碼半布料。
當cloth用來指特定用途的布時,是可數名詞,可以有復數形式的cloths:
1. She cleaned the window with an old cloth.
她用壹塊破布擦窗戶。
2. Have you any cloths for polishing the furniture?
妳有擦家具的布嗎?
clothes則是指“衣服”,只有復數形式:
1. He wore ready-made clothes.
他穿做現成的衣服。
2. He soon changed into the dead man’s clothes for sale.
他立即換上了死者的服裝。