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    /ˈbɑːbi/ · /ˈbɒbi/

    A friendly British word for a police officer, especially one who walks around the streets to help people.

    (英國口語)警察

    複數 bobbies

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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核心畫面

Picture a British police officer on foot, walking a beat through the streets in a tall helmet, nodding to people and keeping an eye out — 'bobby' is the friendly, everyday name for that familiar neighbourhood policeman.

可以想成一個在英國街上走巡邏的警察:戴著高帽,一路走過街區,跟人點點頭、留意四周。bobby 就是對這種街頭巡邏警察更多收起可以想成一個在英國街上走巡邏的警察:戴著高帽,一路走過街區,跟人點點頭、留意四周。bobby 就是對這種街頭巡邏警察親切、口語的叫法。

From the word’s history

From 'Bobby', a pet form of 'Robert', after Sir Robert Peel, who as Home Secretary set up London's Metropolitan Police in 1829. His new officers were nicknamed 'bobbies' in his honour — so the word literally carries the founder's first name.

來自 Robert 的暱稱 Bobby,指的是 Robert Peel 爵士——他在 1829 年以內政大臣身分創立了倫敦大都會警察。這批新警察就用他的名字被暱稱為 bobbies,所以這個字本身就藏著創辦人的名字。

wordhistories.net/2018/03/17/bobby-peeler-police/; Britannica 'bobby' (pet form of Robert, after Robert Peel)

原始詞典資料8 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。

Bobbyname/ˈbɑbi/

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    A diminutive of the male given name Robert.

    • It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him.
    • Legendary soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday, Womack’s publicist said. He was 70.
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    A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.

bobbynoun詞源 1/ˈbɒbi/

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    slangA police officer.

    • If I am wrong, and if Lessingham’s wrong, how do you explain his extraordinary insistence on taking it inside the cab with him, which the bobby describes?
    • "We are looking at being able to fly [drones] tens of miles from base, which is going to make a huge difference. It is the equivalent of having bobbies on the beat."
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    slangA railway signaller.

bobbynoun詞源 2/ˈbɒbi/

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    slangA penis.

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    Cocaine.

    • Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody Hold that properly when I bang that dotty I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
    • Bad one wanna give man toppy She wanna suck off, follow my crew! On the backroad serving molly, she been battling bad for the bobby Saying she is sick: It's not a flu
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    A calf that is slaughtered in its first month, usually because it has no mother or because it is undersized or otherwise defective.

    • The already low proportion of Friesian and Hereford Friesian cross calves sold as bobbies declined to almost insignificant proportions and there was a very steep drop in the proportion of bobby calves in the other breeds
    • The following is the Victorian code of practice as it refers to the welfare of bobby calves.
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    A banana that is extra small in size.

    • My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。