喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of two family lines as two lines drawn on paper, each one running straight down through the generations — one line of tough little local chickens, one line of big northern ones. To crossbreed is to let those two lines meet at a point and carry on as one. Whatever comes out of that meeting has both lines behind it, which is exactly why people do it: they want the toughness of one and the size of the other in the same bird. The verb is the crossing; the noun is the individual standing at the crossing point.

可以想成兩條血統像紙上的兩條線，各自一代一代直直往下走。一條是又小又強壯的本地雞，一條是體型大的北方雞。crossb…更多收起可以想成兩條血統像紙上的兩條線，各自一代一代直直往下走。一條是又小又強壯的本地雞，一條是體型大的北方雞。crossbreed 就是讓這兩條線在某一代交會，然後合成一條繼續走下去。從那個交會點出來的下一代，身上同時帶著兩邊的東西——這也正是人要這樣做的原因：想要一邊的耐病，加上另一邊的體型。動詞是「讓它們交叉」，名詞就是「站在交叉點上的那一個」。

From the word’s history

The word is cross- plus breed: cross carries the idea of two things meeting and passing over each other, and breed is the producing of young, so the two parts together already say what the word means.

這個字是 cross-（交叉）加 breed（繁殖）。cross 本身就是「十字、交會」的意思，兩條線在一點上交過去；breed 是生下下一代。兩個零件拼起來，字面就已經是「交叉著繁殖」，跟核心畫面剛好對得上，不需要額外的故事。

packet Wiktionary etymology_text for crossbreed (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1090392932): "From cross- + breed."

Two branches

讓兩條血統交叉

這是畫面裡的動作本身：把兩條線帶到一起。

verb · B2

To breed a plant or animal with one of a different breed, variety or species, so that the young carry features from both sides. It also works with no object: two breeds crossbreed when they mate and produce a mixed type.

雜交；異種交配

交叉出來的那一個

同一個畫面往後看一步：不是那個動作，而是動作留下來的那隻動物或那株植物。

noun · B2

An animal or plant whose parents were two different breeds or varieties, so that it is a mixture of the two.

混種；雜交種

原始詞典資料4 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。

crossbreedverb/ˈkɹɑːsˌbɹiːd/

  • 1

    To produce (an organism) by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species; hybridize.

    • Recalling the crossbreeding of the lakeside daisy, he insists, "If we hadn't polluted that population with Ohio plants it might have vanished.
  • 2

    To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.

  • 3

    To mate (an organism) with another organism so as to produce a hybrid.

crossbreednoun/ˈkɹɑːsˌbɹiːd/

  • 1

    An organism produced by mating of individuals of different varieties or breeds.

    • When I ask about these dogs, they are described to me as the local mutts, mongrels, pavement specials, crossbreeds.

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。