核心畫面
Start with cut short. a word is itself a signal — it says 'we are close enough that I do not need the full version'. English then takes the closeness of an actual and offers it to a friend: calling someone bro says you are treating him like family.
可以想成：把 brother 砍短。字被砍短這件事本身就在傳達訊息——「我們夠熟，不用講完整的」。接著英文再把親兄弟…更多收起
可以想成：把 brother 砍短。字被砍短這件事本身就在傳達訊息——「我們夠熟，不用講完整的」。接著英文再把親兄弟那份親近借給朋友：叫對方一聲 bro，等於在說「我把你當自家人」。這是很口語的用字，年輕世代和男性之間最常用，寫正式文章不會出現。原始詞典資料7 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。
Broname
- 1
A surname.
bronoun/ˈbɹəʊ̯/
- 1
slangBrother (a male sibling).
- My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.
- 2
slangBrother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
- Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.
- Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman.
- 3
slangBrother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
- Near-synonym: man
- don't tase me, bro
- 4
slangA frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
- 5
derogatoryslangSomeone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
- Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.
- One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。