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A divot is a small chunk of earth with grass still on it that gets torn out of the ground by accident, most often in sport. In golf, the club can hit the turf after the ball and scoop out a piece; in polo, a horse's hooves can do the same. People also point at the scar left behind and call that a divot, though strictly the divot is the piece that came out. are taught to put the divot back and press it down, so the grass can grow again. You will hear it on the course and in sports talk; it is not a formal word. It can be a verb too: to divot the fairway is to tear those chunks out.
草皮塊（高爾夫最常講；打完要把草皮補回去）
組成From 16th-century Scots divot, “a piece of turf,” also spelt in older Scots as duvat(e), devat, and diffat. The Scots word comes from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a shortened form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” — a dark chunk of earth and grass (compare Gaelic fàl, “turf”).
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。
divotnoun/ˈdɪvət/
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golfhobbieslifestyleA torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
- Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window, but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.
- Soon, thick dark tufts of hair began to spread across his scalp, hanging over his ears, a moor of unruly divots which he was first unable to tame and with time willingly cultivated.
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A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
- In these coldest hours before dawn, from three until six, I take up my knife again and hack at the chockstone. I continue to make minimal but visible progress in the divot.
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astronomymathematicsnatural-sciencesA drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)
divotverb/ˈdɪvət/
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golfhobbieslifestyleTo tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.
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。