- 1沙洲島；珊瑚小島
A cay is a very small, low island, usually of sand or coral, sitting in warm shallow water. Think of a strip of land you could walk across in a few minutes — a beach, some bushes, maybe a little reef — not a town and not a mountain. You meet the word most around the Caribbean and nearby seas. It is a geography word, a little specialised; a lot of English speakers would just say “a tiny island.” In American English the same kind of island is often called a key, as in the Florida Keys: that is the same idea, only spelled the other way. Say cay like “key.” It is not a dock (that is a quay), and it is not the key that opens a door, though all three can sound alike in some voices.
組成From Spanish cayo, from Taíno, the language of people who lived in the Caribbean before the Spanish arrived. It does not split into English pieces.
同家族的字
- keysame island-word, different spelling — the Florida Keys are cays
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。
caynoun詞源 1/kiː/
- 1
A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。