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Bamboo is a very tall plant that grows in hot, wet places. The stem is round, smooth, and empty inside, like a long green pipe, with little rings where each new piece of stem starts.
Bamboo竹子 is a very tall plant是一種長得很高的植物 that grows in hot, wet places生長在又熱又濕的地方。The stem莖 is round, smooth, and empty inside是圓的、光滑的、裡面是空的，like a long green pipe像一根長長的綠色管子，with little rings上面有小小的環，where each new piece of stem starts標記著每一節新莖開始的地方。
It can grow as high as a house, but though actually it is not a tree: it is a kind of giant grass.
It can grow as high as a house它可以長得跟房子一樣高，but though actually it is not a tree但其實它不是樹：it is a kind of giant grass它是一種巨大的草。
People cut the dry stems and make chairs, tables, floors, fences, and baskets from them. The young new shoots are a vegetable.
People cut the dry stems人們會砍下乾掉的莖 and make chairs, tables, floors, fences, and baskets from them拿來做椅子、桌子、地板、圍籬和籃子。The young new shoots年輕的新芽 are a vegetable是一種蔬菜。
We also put bamboo in front of another word to mean “made of this plant,” like bamboo or a bamboo mat. In shops the word is sometimes a little loose — a “bamboo” board may be mixed with other wood — but the plant itself is the one with those hollow stems.
We also put bamboo in front of another word我們也會把 bamboo 放在另一個詞前面 to mean "made of this plant"表示「用這種植物做的」，like bamboo chopsticks or a bamboo mat像 bamboo chopsticks（竹筷）或 bamboo mat（竹蓆）。In shops在商店裡 the word is sometimes a little loose這個詞有時候用得比較鬆散——a "bamboo" board may be mixed with other wood一片「bamboo」板可能混了其他木材——but the plant itself is the one with those hollow stems但植物本身指的是那種中空莖的植物。
組成English borrowed the word from Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada bambu. That Kannada form is a variant of a word for the neem tree, going back to Proto-Dravidian *wēmpu. So this name for a grass-like plant travelled through a word that first meant a different tree.
原始詞典資料9 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。
bamboonoun/bæmˈbu/
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Any of the fast-growing grasses of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterized by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem.
- However, the late Hsia and the Shang were considerably warmer, possibly comparable to Hang-chou today, an area where bamboo proliferates.
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Wood of the bamboo plant as a material for building, furniture, etc.
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A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used as a vessel for liquids, or as a tool for corporal punishment.
- It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village and one girl about ten or twelve years old, who had just brought a bamboo full of water from the river, threw it down with a cry of horror and alarm the moment she caught sight of me, turned around and jumped into the stream.
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slangA didgeridoo.
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slangA member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never returned home.
bambooadj/bæmˈbu/
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Made of the wood of the bamboo.
bambooverb/bæmˈbu/
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To flog with a bamboo cane.
- […] the beadle is punished by fine, and sometimes bambooed, if robberies are too frequent within his jurisdiction, or if he fails to secure the person of any malefactor particularly wanted by his superior officers.
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To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
- The craze for bambooing furniture and accessories was one of many popular paint techniques in the 18th century and early Victorian era.
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slangTo penetrate sexually.
- If you're just a girl from Lucknow, with no fluid cash, you'll be just one more among thousands going from producer to producer by auto-rickshaw, and every photographer who agrees to take a picture for your portfolio will want to introduce you to his bed upstairs in the loft. And what you'll get out of all this in the end is a lot of bambooing and maybe a dance or two in his videos.
- One scene of attachment and intimacy shows Vijay careening into their shared apartment dead drunk and insulting a praying Ajay for his devotion to the household god, Hanuman […], saying that instead of being rescued Ajay will be "bamboo-ed," a popular slang for anal penetration.
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。