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A banjo is a musical instrument with a long neck, strings, and a round body like a small drum with a skin stretched over it. You pluck or the strings. It often has four, five, or six strings. The sound is bright and sharp, not as round as a guitar. In the United States it is strongly tied to country, folk, and a kind of fast American folk music called — though actually you also hear it in jazz and in some Irish music, not only in cowboy songs. It came into American music through enslaved African people; the instrument has African roots. You play the banjo, or someone is a banjo player. In class, treat it as this instrument, nothing else.
From the word’s history
From the pronunciation of African slaves; possibly a corruption of bandore, or from a West African word such as Kimbundu mbanza; ultimate origin unknown.
源自非洲奴隸的唸法，可能來自 bandore 或西非語言；來源不明。
組成English speakers wrote down the way enslaved African people said the name. Where that name first came from is not certain. It may be a changed form of bandore (from Spanish bandurria), or it may come from a West African language — people have suggested Mandinka banjul and Kimbundu mbanza. Scholars do not agree, so we should not pretend we know.
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
banjonoun/ˈbæn.dʒəʊ/
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A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
- I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjo.
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Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
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slangAn object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
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A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".
- Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.
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businessminingA miner's round-nosed shovel.
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An egg sandwich fried on a flattop and served in a bun like a burger, ellipsis of egg banjo.
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vulgarslangThe frenulum of the penis.
banjoverb/ˈbæn.dʒəʊ/
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To play a banjo.
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slangTo beat, to knock down.
- Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.
- Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo shell or attack (a target).
- Riding reported that on the day Mayne had asked for DZ coordinates, their base had been banjoed by the Germans.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。