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    An aardvark is a large animal from southern Africa with a very long nose, strong claws, and big ears. It comes out at night, breaks into termite mounds, and eats small insects with a long sticky tongue. It lives in burrows in the ground.

    An aardvark土豚 is一種動物 a large animal from southern Africa來自非洲南部的大型動物 with a very long nose, strong claws, and big ears有很長的鼻子、強壯的爪子和大耳朵 It它 comes out at night晚上出來活動 breaks into termite mounds闖進白蟻窩 and eats small insects with a long sticky tongue用長長黏黏的舌頭吃小昆蟲 It它 lives in burrows in the ground住在地底的洞穴裡

    Early European in South Africa thought it looked a bit like a pig that lived in the earth, which is how it got its name — though actually it is not a pig, and it is not an either, even though people lump it in with animals that eat ants. It is its own kind of creature.

    Early European colonists in South Africa早期在南非的歐洲殖民者 thought it looked a bit like a pig that lived in the earth覺得牠有點像住在土裡的豬 which is how it got its name這就是牠名字的由來 though actually it is not a pig不過牠其實不是豬 and it is not an anteater either也不是食蟻獸 even though people lump it in with animals that eat ants雖然大家常把牠跟吃螞蟻的動物歸在一起 It它 is its own kind of creature是自成一類的生物

    You mostly meet the word in nature programmes, in children’s alphabet books (it is handy when you need an animal for A), and as a slightly funny, memorable English word.

    You mostly meet the word你大多會在 in nature programmes自然節目 in children's alphabet books還有兒童字母書 (it is handy when you need an animal for A)裡遇到這個詞（需要一個A開頭的動物時很好用） and as a slightly funny, memorable English word也算是一個有點好笑、讓人印象深刻的英文字

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成Borrowed from Afrikaans aardvark (now rare), also erdvark, from aarde (“earth”, from Middle Dutch aerde) + vark (“pig”, from Middle Dutch varken). Colonists saw a pig-like animal that burrowed.

同家族的字

  • aardwolfanother African animal whose name starts with the same Afrikaans aard, “earth”

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

aardvarknoun/ˈɑːd.vɑːk/

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    The nocturnal, insectivorous, burrowing mammal Orycteropus afer, of the order Tubulidentata and somewhat resembling a pig. Common in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

    • The aardvark burrows in the ground and feeds mostly on termites, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.
    • If ‘aardvark lover’ has that syntactic structure, then it determinately means “lover of aardvarks.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。