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Cairns is a city and port on the north-east coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland.
Cairns Cairns is a city and port是一座城市與港口on the north-east coast of Australia位於澳洲東北岸in the state of Queensland屬於昆士蘭州
It is a tropical place — hot, often wet — and many use it as the jump-off point for the Great Barrier Reef and the rainforest nearby.
It is a tropical place是一個熱帶地方hot, often wet炎熱、常常潮濕and many travellers use it as the jump-off point很多旅客把它當作出發點for the Great Barrier Reef and the rainforest nearby去大堡礁和附近雨林
In everyday English the name is a place-name only; you fly into Cairns, stay in Cairns, leave from Cairns. It is not a common word for anything else.
In everyday English在日常英文裡the name is a place-name only這個名字只是個地名you fly into Cairns你飛到Cairnsstay in Cairns住在Cairnsleave from Cairns從Cairns出發It is not a common word for anything else它不是拿來指其他東西的常見詞
The city takes a Scottish family name: in a is a man-made heap of stones, and that word became a surname for someone linked with such a mound.
The city takes a Scottish family name這座城市用的是一個蘇格蘭姓氏in Scots在蘇格蘭語裡a cairn is a man-made heap of stonescairn是人工堆成的石堆and that word became a surname這個詞後來變成姓氏for someone linked with such a mound指跟這種石堆有關的人
The same English spelling also covers an Irish family name from Ó Ciaráin (the source of Kieran and Kearns), which people have sometimes mixed together with the Scottish one.
The same English spelling同樣的英文拼法also covers an Irish family name也涵蓋一個愛爾蘭姓氏from Ó Ciaráin源自Ó Ciaráin(the source of Kieran and Kearns)(Kieran和Kearns的來源)which people have sometimes mixed together with the Scottish one人們有時候會把它和蘇格蘭的那個搞混
The Queensland city is the Scottish name on the map. Spoken English usually makes it one short sound, a bit like “kens”, not “cay-urns”.
The Queensland city昆士蘭這座城市is the Scottish name on the map地圖上用的是蘇格蘭那個名字Spoken English口語英文usually makes it one short sound通常把它唸成一個短音a bit like "kens"有點像『kens』not "cay-urns"而不是『cay-urns』
組成A place-name from a surname. Scottish: from Scots cairn, a heap of stones. Irish (sometimes mixed in): from Ó Ciaráin, also behind Kieran and Kearns.
同家族的字
- cairnthe Scots word for a pile of stones, which gave the Scottish family its name
原始詞典資料4 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。
Cairnsname/kɛənz/
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A surname from Scots or Irish; variant forms Carnes, Carns.
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A city and port in Queensland, Australia, named after William Cairns.
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A local government area in northern Queensland; in full, the Cairns Region.
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。