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To cavort is to jump, dance, or move around in a lively, playful way — and sometimes in a sexual or flirty way. Children cavort on a beach; lambs cavort in a field. About adults, the word often carries a teasing or slightly tone, as if the speaker thinks those people are showing off, not being serious, or enjoying themselves a little too freely. Newspapers like it for celebrities on yachts. It is informal and colourful, more common in writing and headlines than in a ’s everyday speech. It is about the movement and the mood, not about caves.
歡蹦亂跳、嬉鬧；用在大人身上時，有時帶輕佻、調情的意思
組成First used in the United States in 1793, as cauvaut, at first about horses. Probably from a colloquial intensifying prefix ca-/ka- + vault (to jump); early sources also connect it to a horse’s manner called cavault. Alternatively, a variation of curvet (a horse’s jump). Scholars are not sure which story is the right one.
原始詞典資料3 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。
cavortverb/kəˈvɔːt/
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To prance, frolic, gambol.
- […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]
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To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.
- And dragon-flies sported around and cavorted, / As poets say dragon-flies ought to do; […]
- He whirligigged and pirouetted, dancing and cavorting round like an inebriated ape.
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informalTo engage in extravagant pursuits, especially of a sexual nature.
- As he moves back into the shadows, the stage is taken over by a troupe of Pan-like dancers, leaping and cavorting in an obscene ballet.
- We can't even write stories about moguls like Rupert Murdoch or Barry Diller unless it involves photographs of them cavorting with young flesh.
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。