喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈbɪli/野營鍋

    A metal pot used for cooking food or boiling water over a fire when you are camping.

    billy（也說 billycan）是英式、澳式英文，指露營時架在火上「煮東西或燒開水」的金屬鍋，通常有提把可以吊在火上。台灣較少用這個字，但在露營、野外故事裡會看到。中文說「（露營用的）野營鍋、煮水壺」。

    示範例句 · Example

    Grandpa filled the billy with water and hung it over the campfire.

    中文翻譯爺爺把野營鍋裝滿水，掛在營火上。

    常見搭配

    • fill the billy

      把野營鍋裝滿水

      to put water into the camping pot

      She filled the billy at the stream.

    • boil the billy

      用野營鍋燒水

      to heat water in the camping pot

      Let's boil the billy and make tea.

    • a billy of water

      一鍋水

      a camping pot full of water

      He carried a billy of water back to camp.

    意思相近

    billycanpotcan

core核心畫面

Picture a plain metal pot with a wire handle, sitting straight in the fire at a camp — the one thing you boil water in, make tea in, and cook in, because you only carried one.

可以想成：營地火堆上直接架著的一只金屬鍋，上面一道鐵絲提把。燒水、泡茶、煮東西都靠它，因為出門就帶了這一個。畫面裡沒有廚房，只有火和這只鍋。

billies

意思相近

billycanpotcan

原始詞典資料11 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。

Billyname/ˈbɪli/

  • 1

    A diminutive of the male given name William.

    • “By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s your other name? You never told me.” “Stubbs,” said Billy, “William Stubbs!”.
    • Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year.
  • 2

    The B-25 twin-engine bomber aircraft used during World War Two, commonly called the "B-25 Mitchell" in honor of U.S. Army General William "Billy" Mitchell.

    • Just then a squadron of "Billys" -- twin-engined B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers -- flew overhead ….

billynoun詞源 1/ˈbɪli/

  • 1

    A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.

  • 2

    A good friend.

    • Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!
  • 3

    A billy goat.

    • 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries, Field & Stream, page 62, Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies.
    • In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.
  • 4

    obsoleteslangA silk handkerchief.

    • All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […]

billynoun詞源 2/ˈbɪli/

  • 1

    A highwayman's club, billy club.

  • 2

    A slubbing or roving machine.

    • […]at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies, giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.”
    • On the second floor there were 2 billies, 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine.
  • 3

    A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.

    • Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
    • We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies, the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with billies with no bottoms?
  • 4

    slangA bong for smoking marijuana.

  • 5

    slangA condom.

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