核心畫面
Think of a big brown seed from a tall palm tree in a hot place: a hard hairy shell you have to crack open, thick white food lining the inside, and a thin milky liquid you can drink. The whole thing sits in your two hands like a heavy ball.
可以想成熱帶高高的椰子樹上結的那顆大棕色果實：外殼硬又帶著粗毛，要敲開才進得去；裡面貼著一層厚厚的白色果肉，中間還有…更多收起
可以想成熱帶高高的椰子樹上結的那顆大棕色果實：外殼硬又帶著粗毛，要敲開才進得去；裡面貼著一層厚厚的白色果肉，中間還有一汪淡淡的椰水可以喝。整顆捧在手上沉甸甸的，像一顆重球——這顆「連殼帶肉」的完整果實，就是這個字的起點，另一個意思則是從裡面那層白肉切出來的。原始詞典資料11 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。
coconutnoun/ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/
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A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- The Coco-nut Trees grow by the Sea, on the Weſtern ſide in great Groves, 3 or 4 Miles in length, and a Mile or two broad. This tree is in ſhape like the Cabbage-tree, and at a diſtance they are not to be known each from other, only the Coco-nut Tree is fuller of Branches ; but the Cabbage-tree generally is much higher, tho' the Coco-nut Trees in ſome places are very high.
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A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
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The edible white flesh of this fruit.
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The coconut palm.
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derogatoryslurA member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
- After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?
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derogatoryslurA member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
- Their convictions challenged those critics who dismissed John Githongo’s anti-corruption efforts as the naïve projection of inappropriate ‘mzungu’ values onto an African nation where they were doomed to fail. If John was a ‘coconut’, he certainly wasn’t the only coconut in Kenya.
- Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.
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derogatoryslurA member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
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derogatoryslurA member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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derogatoryslurA Pacific islander.
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slangA female breast.
- He compliments her erect posture and says her breasts look like big clusters of grapes hanging off a palm tree. You would expect him to say merely that he likes her big coconuts.
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slangThe human head.
- [Ashley J. Williams shoots a zombified version of the Winter Soldier in the head.] Dazzler: Oh my God...thank you! I-i-is he-- Ashley J. Williams: A double-barrel boomstick blast straight through the coconut? Trust me, babe--he's not comin' back from that one.
- 'How unfortunate.' 'Yes. It's rather causing him to go off his coconut. He's met a girl, you see. A peach.'
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。