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Dieppe is a port town on the north coast of France, on the English Channel — the sea that sits between France and England. It is not a huge capital; it is a harbour people know because boats still carry people and cars between Dieppe and Newhaven, a port on the English side.
Dieppe is a port town是個港口小鎮, on the north coast of France在法國北岸, on the English Channel位在英倫海峽上 — the sea that sits between France and England就是介於法國和英國之間的那片海. It is not a huge capital它不是什麼大都市; it is a harbour people know它是個大家知道的港口, because boats still carry people and cars因為船還在載人和汽車, between Dieppe and Newhaven往來Dieppe和Newhaven之間, a port on the English side英國那邊的一個港口
When someone in English says they are going to Dieppe, they almost always mean this French town.
When someone in English says當有人用英文說 they are going to Dieppe他們要去Dieppe, they almost always mean this French town幾乎都是指這個法國小鎮
The name is old: English once had Depe, from Middle French Diepe, and the way we say it now was later reshaped to follow modern French Dieppe.
The name is old這個名字很古老: English once had Depe英文以前是Depe, from Middle French Diepe源自中古法文的Diepe, and the way we say it now而我們現在的唸法, was later reshaped to follow modern French Dieppe後來又改成跟現代法文Dieppe一致
There is another Dieppe in New Brunswick, Canada. That town was named later, in memory of Canadian soldiers who died in the Dieppe Raid of 1942, a hard attack on the French port in the Second World War. So the Canadian name is a memorial; the older place is the French harbour.
There is another Dieppe還有另一個Dieppe in New Brunswick, Canada在加拿大的New Brunswick. That town was named later這座城鎮的名字是後來取的, in memory of為了紀念 Canadian soldiers加拿大軍人 who died in the Dieppe Raid of 1942在1942年迪耶普戰役中陣亡的, a hard attack on the French port那是二戰時對這個法國港口的一場慘烈攻擊, in the Second World War. So the Canadian name is a memorial所以加拿大這個名字是紀念性的; the older place is the French harbour比較早的那個地方則是法國的港口
組成Inherited from Middle English Depe, from Middle French Diepe. The modern English pronunciation is a later reshaping after modern French Dieppe.
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。
Dieppename/diˈɛp/
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A coastal town in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
- Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses.
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A city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
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。