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/ɪnˈdeɪndʒərd/ · /ɪnˈdeɪndʒəd/
used about a kind of animal, bird, or plant that may soon stop existing, because only a very small number of them are still alive.
瀕臨絕種的
核心畫面
A kind of animal or plant whose numbers have dropped so low that the whole kind could disappear. Think of a count going down and down until only a handful are left — the danger is not to one animal but to the whole species continuing to exist.
可以想成一個「數量一路往下掉，快要歸零」的畫面：某種動物或植物全世界只剩下很少的個體，再少下去這個物種就從此不存在了…更多收起
可以想成一個「數量一路往下掉，快要歸零」的畫面：某種動物或植物全世界只剩下很少的個體，再少下去這個物種就從此不存在了。要注意危險的對象不是某一隻動物的性命，而是「這一種生物還能不能繼續存在」——所以中文說「瀕臨絕種」，指的正是站在消失邊緣的那個狀態。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。
endangeredadj/ɪnˈdeɪn.d͡ʒəd/
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in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct)
- I have but done my devoir, lady, as a good knight, in defence of an endangered maiden […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。