- 1蟑螂（有人暱稱「小強」，那是玩笑叫法）
A cockroach is a flat, fast insect, usually brown or black, that likes warm places with a little food and water. People picture dirty kitchens, though actually a clean kitchen can still have them if there are , a drip of water, and a crack to hide in. They come out mostly at night and run when the light goes on. The word is ordinary and a bit disgusted: saying a place is full of cockroaches insults the place. People also use cockroach as a strong insult for a person they find disgusting or hard to get rid of — that use is rude. In everyday English this insect is a cockroach, not “a beetle”, even if the body looks hard. It is a very common word; every household knows it.
組成From Spanish cucaracha, from cuca (used of certain caterpillars), a name that started as a sound. English later reshaped it so it looks like cock + roach, but those English words are not really inside it — that is a folk story the spelling tells. Doublet of cucaracha: same origin, two shapes.
原始詞典資料5 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。
cockroachnoun/ˈkɑkɹoʊt͡ʃ/
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Any black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea that is not a termite.
- Then there were cockroach hunts; we chased them out of their haunts, where at night they busily devoured currants, jam, and sugar; in fact their diet was far more varied than ours, for they made plentiful meals off our boots, the coverings of our books, and any stray pieces of flannel that came in their way.
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derogatoryslangTerm of abuse.
- I want a divorce, you cockroach!
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offensivederogatoryslangA person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
- During the Rwandan genocide, Hutu genocidaires labelled Tutsis as cockroaches and called for their extermination.
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derogatoryslangA person from New South Wales.
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obsoleteslangA hard lump of brown sugar.
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。