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A blackbird is a bird. In Britain and Europe, the name belongs to one garden bird with a beautiful song.
A blackbird is a birdblackbird是一種鳥 In Britain and Europe在英國和歐洲 the name belongs to one garden bird with a beautiful song這個名字指的是一種會在花園裡出現、叫聲很好聽的鳥
The male looks all black and has a bright yellow ; the female is dark brown, so the name fits him better than her. People hear it in gardens, in poems, and in old songs.
The male looks all black and has a bright yellow beak公鳥全身黑，配一張鮮黃色的嘴 the female is dark brown母鳥則是深褐色 so the name fits him better than her所以這個名字比較符合公鳥，而不是母鳥 People hear it in gardens, in poems, and in old songs人們會在花園、詩歌和老歌裡聽到牠
In North America, people use blackbird more loosely for several birds that are mostly black — and some of those males are not completely black at all (the red-winged one has red and yellow on the wing). So “a black bird” is a fair picture of the European male, but the word does not mean every black bird, and it does not mean a crow or a raven, which are bigger and a different kind of bird.
In North America在北美 people use blackbird more loosely for several birds that are mostly black大家用blackbird這個字比較鬆散，泛指好幾種大部分是黑色的鳥 and some of those males are not completely black at all而其中有些公鳥其實根本不是全黑的 (the red-winged one has red and yellow on the wing)（像紅翅黑鸝的翅膀上就有紅色和黃色） So 'a black bird' is a fair picture of the European male所以'a black bird'這個字面畫面，大致符合歐洲那種公鳥 but the word does not mean every black bird但這個字不是指所有黑色的鳥 and it does not mean a crow or a raven也不是指烏鴉（crow）或渡鴉（raven） which are bigger and a different kind of bird那些是體型更大、完全不同的一類鳥
It is an everyday nature word, not a formal one.
It is an everyday nature word, not a formal one這是個日常的自然用語，不是正式用字
組成black + bird. From Middle English blakebird / blacbrid, an old name for this bird (also called the ouzel). It is simply the colour black plus bird.
同家族的字
- blackberryalso black + the name of a plant
- bluebirdanother colour + bird name for a real bird
原始詞典資料4 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。
blackbirdnoun/ˈblakbəːd/
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A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
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A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).
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derogatoryhistoricalslangA native of the South Pacific islands.
blackbirdverb/ˈblakbəːd/
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To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force
- “At the same time, island communities — especially in coastal areas, where the effect of population loss was often enormous — sometimes retaliated against blackbirding raids.”
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。