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A basset is a hunting dog with a long body, very short legs, and long hanging ears. People often say basset hound for the same animal — that fuller name is what you will hear most. It was bred to hunt by smell, close to the ground; those short legs keep the nose near the earth. The face can look a little sad and a little funny at the same time. It is a countable noun: a basset, two bassets. You will meet it around dogs and in children’s books more than in formal writing. There is another old word spelled the same, a card game, but this entry is the dog.
巴吉度犬（短腳長耳的獵犬；台灣也常直接說 basset hound）
組成For this short-legged hunting dog, the name fits French basset, from bas, “low” — a low dog. The spelling also has a recorded path from French bassette, from Italian bassetta, which belongs with an old card game of the same spelling, not with this animal.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Bassetname
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A surname from French.
bassetnoun/ˈbæsɪt/
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesThe edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
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A basset hound.
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card-gamesgamesA card game resembling faro.
- Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget / Your piquet parties, and your dear basset.
- We are to go and see Pope's new grotto, opened for the first time; then try Hampton Court, and see if Mrs. Howard will stake a little princely gold on a pool of basset.
bassetverb/ˈbæsɪt/
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesTo incline upward so as to appear at the surface.
- A vein of coal bassets.
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。