喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the friend you do things with — not the one you write letters to, the one who is just there: same team, same shift, same weekend plans. The word carries warmth and easiness, and English then lends that easiness to a stranger, calling him buddy to skip the formality.

可以想成：那種一起做事的朋友——不是通信的那種，而是「就在旁邊」的那種：同一隊、同一班、週末一起出去。這個字帶著隨和…更多收起可以想成：那種一起做事的朋友——不是通信的那種，而是「就在旁邊」的那種：同一隊、同一班、週末一起出去。這個字帶著隨和親近的感覺，英文接著把這份隨和借去用在陌生人身上：叫對方一聲 buddy，等於跳過客套。要留意這是美式的口語用字，男性之間用得最多。

原始詞典資料9 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。

Buddyname

  • 1

    A male nickname.

  • 2

    rareA male given name from English.

  • 3

    A given name for a dog.

buddynoun詞源 1/ˈbʌdi/

  • 1

    A friend or casual acquaintance.

    • They have been buddies since they were in school.
    • He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me.
  • 2

    A partner for a particular activity.

    • drinking buddies
    • training buddies [mentor/mentee]
  • 3

    An informal and friendly address to a stranger, usually male; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.

    • Hey, buddy, I think you dropped this.

buddypron詞源 1/ˈbʌdi/

  • 1

    A person far removed from the conversation.

    • I found some earphones in the pocket, buddy must have been pissed.
    • Buddy's loaded. 'Got like three houses.

buddyverb詞源 1/ˈbʌdi/

  • 1

    To assign a buddy, or partner, to.

    • If you are being formally buddied, have a good chat with your buddy and find out their interests -- these should more or less match your own.

buddyadj詞源 2/ˈbʌdi/

  • 1

    Resembling a bud.

    • Some of the dwarfer varieties are full of buddy growths in the early stages and these must be cut down and thrown away.

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。