- 1背甲；甲殼（蟹、龜那種硬殼，不是蝸牛殼、也不是蛋殼）
A carapace is the hard shell on the outside of some animals, especially on the back. A crab has one; a tortoise or turtle has one; some insects have a hard cover that people also call a carapace. It is armour: it protects the soft body underneath. Though actually, English speakers do not use it for every hard cover. An egg shell is not a carapace. A snail’s spiral house is usually just a shell. You hear carapace most with crabs, lobsters, and tortoises, and then, in careful writing, as a picture-word for any hard outside that hides what is inside — a person who never shows feeling may be said to have a carapace, but that is stretched, literary use. In biology it stays literal.
組成From French carapace, “tortoise shell”, from Spanish carapacho. The Spanish word’s origin is unknown; it likely comes from an old language of the Iberian Mediterranean. Doublet of calipash.
同家族的字
- calipashsame origin: the green jelly-like meat under a turtle’s upper shell
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
carapacenoun/ˈkæ.ɹəˌpeɪs/
- 1
A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
- 2
That which protects.
- So, little by little, youth loosens the hard carapace of confining custom their elders have built over the human heart.
- This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。