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/bɑːrˈbeɪdoʊs/
A small island country in the Caribbean Sea, known for its warm weather and sandy beaches.
巴貝多（加勒比海島國）
核心畫面
You can picture one specific small island nation sitting in the warm Caribbean Sea — sunshine, sandy beaches, a place with its own name on the map.
可以想成加勒比海上一個有名字的小島國：陽光、沙灘、溫暖的海。它就是地圖上那一個特定的地方，沒有別的引申，整個詞就只指…更多收起
可以想成加勒比海上一個有名字的小島國：陽光、沙灘、溫暖的海。它就是地圖上那一個特定的地方，沒有別的引申，整個詞就只指這個國家本身。原始詞典資料2 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。
Barbadosname/bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.dɒs/
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An island and country in the Caribbean.
Barbadosverb/bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.dɒs/
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historicalTo press-gang (force into naval service).
- The Barbadian planters […] resorted to shipping in hundreds of Scottish and Irish soldiers who’d been taken prisoner during Oliver Cromwell’s conquest. When that supply ran out, they took to kidnapping children, so many that a new term was coined: “barbadosed” meant the same thing in the late seventeenth century as “shanghaied” would in the twentieth.
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。