喜樂美語

From the word’s history

Uncertain; late-18th-century slang, perhaps from dun 'brownish grey' + diminutive suffixes, or from Duncan.

18 世紀俚語，來源不明；可能來自 dun「灰褐色」加小稱字尾。

Wiktionary

Picture the animal itself: a small, grey-brown, long-eared cousin of the horse that along under a heavy load without hurrying. Slow, patient, strong — that , working animal is the picture the word starts from, and the only other use of the word is locked inside one fixed phrase.

可以想成一頭灰褐色、耳朵特別長的小馬——牠背著重物，一步一步慢慢走，不趕也不停。強壯、慢、有耐性，這隻默默馱東西的動物就是這個字最原本的畫面；除此之外，donkey 只在一個固定片語裡另有意思。

donkeys

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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

donkeynoun/ˈdɒŋ.ki/

  • 1

    A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.

    • Lost last Saturday between twenty and thirty shillings they that have found it please to leave it heare there is five shillings reward by Wm. Roberts that goeth with a Donkey with many thanks
    • DONKEY, donkey dick, a he, or jack ass, called donkey, perhaps from the Spanish, or don like gravity of that animal, entitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter
  • 2

    A stubborn person.

  • 3

    A fool.

  • 4

    nauticaltransportA small auxiliary engine.

  • 5

    datedslanggovernmentmilitarynavalA box or chest, especially a toolbox.

  • 6

    slangcard-gamespokerA bad poker player.

  • 7

    nauticaltransportA sailor's storage chest.

    • The chest may be found among those who stick to the sailing vessels, but for the steamer, the donkey died its natural death when the Suez Canal—responsible for many changes at sea—became an accomplished fact.

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