歐石楠：從木料到成品
材料在前，成品在後：先有那塊硬根，才有拿它做出來的東西。
noun · C2
A pipe for smoking tobacco, cut from the hard root of the briar shrub. People often call the pipe just a briar, without saying the word pipe.
石楠根菸斗
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 荊棘；帶刺野灌木 · 石楠根菸斗
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briar
noun核心畫面
A low wild bush of long thin stems, every one of them set with small sharp points. It is not tall and not rare, but you pay a price to get through it.
可以想成路邊那一叢野生的矮樹：細長的枝條四處亂竄，上面密密麻麻都是小尖刺。你走過去，袖子先被勾住，然後是手臂。它不高…更多收起
可以想成路邊那一叢野生的矮樹：細長的枝條四處亂竄，上面密密麻麻都是小尖刺。你走過去，袖子先被勾住，然後是手臂。它不高大，也不稀有，可是要穿過去就得付出代價。這個畫面一千年來幾乎沒有變過。From the word’s history
From Middle English brere, from Old English brer, meaning briar or bramble — the same thorny bush it still names today.
來自中古英語 brere，再往前是古英語 brēr／brǣr，意思就是「荊棘、野莓叢」。從古英語到今天，它指的一直是同一種東西，中間沒有換過對象。
Wiktionary, packet evidence kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1024862460 — From Middle English brere, from Old English brēr, brǣr (briar, bramble).
A second word, same spelling
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briar
noun核心畫面
A different word that happens to be spelled the same: a low on a dry Mediterranean , whose value is not above ground at all but in the hard, heavy root buried under it.
這一個雖然跟荊棘長得一模一樣，來源卻是另一條路。可以想成地中海乾坡上的一叢歐石楠：地面上的部分並不起眼，真正值錢的是…更多收起
這一個雖然跟荊棘長得一模一樣，來源卻是另一條路。可以想成地中海乾坡上的一叢歐石楠：地面上的部分並不起眼，真正值錢的是埋在土裡那塊又硬又重的根。把根挖出來、曬上幾年、削出一個碗形，就成了菸斗。整條線都繞著那塊根走。From the word’s history
From French bruyere, the tree heath, later assimilated in spelling to the unrelated thorn-bush briar.
來自法文 bruyère（歐石楠）。它本來跟荊棘沒有關係，是進了英文以後拼法被 briar 吸了過去，兩個字才長成同一個樣子。所以同形不同源，讀的時候要看上下文。
Wiktionary, packet evidence kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1024867169 — From French bruyère, assimilated with Etymology 1.
From the picture
Also in this word
noun · C2
A low Mediterranean shrub, also called tree heath, that has a very hard root; also the wood cut from that root, which is used for making pipes.
歐石楠（其木料）
原始詞典資料6 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。
Briarname
- 1
A topographic surname from Middle English.
- 2
A unisex given name from English.
briarnoun詞源 1/bɹaɪə/
- 1
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
- Youngthes folke now flocken in every where, To gather May-buskets and smelling brere
- 2
Anything that is sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
- ¶ And thou ſonne of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their wordes, though bryars and thornes be with thee, and thou doeſt dwell among ſcorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be diſmayed at their lookes, though they be a rebellious houſe.
- Rov'd far, and gather'd much : some harsh, 't is true, / Pick'd from the thorns and briers of reproof, / But wholesome, well-digested;[…]
briarnoun詞源 2/bɹaɪə/
- 1
Tree heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
- 2
A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
- Then he put the insulted pipe in his pocket, corked himself up with the immense briar, and sneered at Cripps over the top of it.
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。