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DBE is a British honour. The letters stand for Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. When the British state wants to thank a woman for work that matters to the country — music, science, charity, public life — it may give her this title. After that, people may call her Dame plus her name, instead of Mrs, Miss, or Ms. A man at the matching rank becomes a knight and may use Sir. Though actually, British Empire is a name from an older time; the honour still exists, but the empire it names does not. You will meet this in news about famous British women. It is formal, ceremonial English, not something people in Taiwan put after their own names.
女爵士(DBE:大英帝國爵級司令勳章;台灣新聞多稱「女爵士」)
組成An abbreviation: Dame Commander of the (Order of the) British Empire. The letters do not hide a smaller English word; they stand for the rank and the order.
原始詞典資料2 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。
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。