核心畫面
Picture a hard, smooth, white material made by baking fine clay at very high heat — the shiny stuff a delicate teacup or plate is made of. 'china' is first that material; then the same word names the cups and plates themselves, especially a matching set you bring out for guests.
可以想成一種把細緻黏土用高溫燒出來的硬質、光滑、潔白的材料——就是那種薄薄的茶杯或盤子摸起來又冷又亮的質地。chin…更多收起
可以想成一種把細緻黏土用高溫燒出來的硬質、光滑、潔白的材料——就是那種薄薄的茶杯或盤子摸起來又冷又亮的質地。china 的核心畫面先是「這種材料」;接著同一個字也用來指用它做成的杯盤本身,尤其是招待客人時拿出來的那一整套餐具。原始詞典資料31 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。
Chinaname詞源 1/ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/
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A cultural region and civilization in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers, taken as a whole under its various dynasties.
- China has 5000 years of history.
- The great China, whose kyng is thought... the greatest prince in the worlde.
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A large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949.
- 'Only a Nixon' Could Go to China
- 2017, Donald J. Trump, speech at Make America Great Again Rally, Harrisburg, PA And I met with the President of China at great length in Florida, and we had long, long talks—hours and hours and hours.
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Synonym of mainland China.
- The gambling winnings were transferred from Macau to China.
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China in One China, asserting that there is only one de jure Chinese nation
- It will not change the historical and legal facts that there is only one China in the world.
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historicalAny of the empires occupying similar territory to that of the modern nation of China, ruled under various dynasties up through the early 20th century.
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historicalThe Republic of China prior to 1949, and sometimes after that time, particularly up through the early 1970's or so (when the People's Republic of China assumed the United Nations seat allocated to China).
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rareA female given name.
- My name is China Bayles. I'm the owner of Thyme and Seasons and the co-owner, with Ruby Wilcox, of a new tearoom called Thyme for Tea.
- 'What's her name, this girl?' The fight had hoarsened Lynne's voice, and the words came out strangely staccato - a wooden doll that had just learned to speak. 'China,' he mumbled, feeling an obscure desire to invent a pseudonym for her. 'What an interesting name.' Angus struck the table edge hard. 'Aw, don't gies it.' 'I don't know what you mean. Or is it a nickname? Fragile, is she?'
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A place in the United States:
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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A place in the United States:
- The golden baked pâté chinois, a shepherd's pie, uses a recipe brought back to Quebec by miners working in China, Me.
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A place in the United States:
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A place in the United States:
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A place in the United States:
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A municipality and town in Nuevo León, Mexico.
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A surname.
Chinanoun詞源 1/ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/
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obsoleteA Chinese person.
Chinaname詞源 2/tʃi.nɑː/
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A town in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
- According to the town of China, if all students commuting by motorcycles switched to electric ones, carbon emissions could be reduced to under one-fourth of the current amount.
- The two towns on the island, China (pronounced chee-nah) and Wadomari, along with neighboring Tokunoshima island, each have different dialects.
chinanoun/ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/
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Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china.
- It's a china doll.
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Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
- They sell Callicoes, Cheney Sattin, Cheney ware.
- ...a Present of certain very rich Pieces of China.
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datedCheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
- What is porcelain? A fine earthenware differing from china in being harder, whiter, harder to fuse and more translucent than ordinary pottery.
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Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
- China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold […].
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obsoleteSynonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.
- ...And then the last boon I'll implore, Is to bless us with China so tight...
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Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.
- Rosa indica (the common China); Rosa semperflorens (the monthly China).
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slangSynonym of mate (rhyme of china-plate).
- All right, me old china?
- ‘Now, then, my china-plate...’ This is essentially a brick~layer's phrase. If for ‘china-plate’ you substitute ‘mate’,[…] the puzzle is revealed.
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datedTea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
- Tea... Finest China, Plain (Moning).
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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obsoletegamesA glazed china marble.
- The marbles, in those days, had their primitive names. The unglazed china ones were called plasters because they looked like plaster; the glazed china marbles were called chinas. I remember how charming were the partly colored lines which encircled them.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
- China cymbals are a type of short sound cymbal. [Brand X] makes chinas with really short sounds.
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。