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A burro is a small donkey. English took the word from Spanish, and you hear it most in the American Southwest and in writing about Mexico or desert trails — pack animals, canyons, old mining towns. In Britain people almost always just say donkey; burro sounds regional and a bit American. It is a plain noun, not a rude word in English, though in Spanish burro can also tease someone for being slow, the way English sometimes uses donkey. This is the animal, not the food. The food is burrito, which is the Spanish diminutive of this same word.
小驢(西語詞;美西、墨西哥一帶常用)。不是墨西哥捲餅。
組成Borrowed from Spanish burro (donkey).
同家族的字
- burritoSpanish burrito is the diminutive of burro; in English the food name comes from that
原始詞典資料1 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。
burronoun/ˈbʊɹoʊ/
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A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.
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。