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The name of King Arthur's sword in the old British legends. It is a name, not an ordinary word, so it always takes a capital E and no 'the' — you say "Arthur drew Excalibur", not "the Excalibur".
The name of King Arthur's sword亞瑟王之劍的名字， in the old British legends.出自古老的英國傳說。 It is a name, not an ordinary word,這是個專有名詞，不是普通字， so it always takes a capital E and no 'the'所以永遠大寫E開頭，前面也不加'the'， — you say "Arthur drew Excalibur", not "the Excalibur".——你會說「Arthur drew Excalibur」，而不是「the Excalibur」。
In the stories, it is no ordinary weapon: in some tellings a hand rises out of a lake to give it to him, and when he is dying he orders it thrown back into the water.
In the stories, it is no ordinary weapon:在故事裡，它可不是普通的武器： in some tellings a hand rises out of a lake to give it to him,有些版本裡，一隻手從湖裡伸出來把劍交給他， and when he is dying he orders it thrown back into the water.而他臨死前，也下令把劍丟回水裡。
(The sword he pulls out of the stone to prove he is the true king is a different sword in many versions, though films and cartoons have blurred the two together.) Because everyone knows the story, the name gets borrowed: for hotels, ships, video-game weapons, and companies who want to sound powerful and a bit noble. If you use it in a sentence about something else, you are saying "this is the one legendary, unbeatable tool" — "Excel is her Excalibur" is a joke, but people would understand it.
(The sword he pulls out of the stone to prove he is the true king is a different sword in many versions,（他從石頭裡拔出來、用來證明自己是真正國王的那把劍，在很多版本裡其實是另一把劍， though films and cartoons have blurred the two together.)不過電影和卡通常常把這兩把劍混成一把。） Because everyone knows the story,因為大家都熟悉這個故事， the name gets borrowed: for hotels, ships, video-game weapons, and companies who want to sound powerful and a bit noble.這個名字就被拿去用在飯店、船、電玩武器，以及想聽起來強大又帶點高貴感的公司名上。 If you use it in a sentence about something else,如果你把它用在別的事情上， you are saying "this is the one legendary, unbeatable tool"你其實是在說「這就是那個傳說中、無敵的工具」 — "Excel is her Excalibur" is a joke, but people would understand it.——「Excel is her Excalibur」是個玩笑話，但大家會聽得懂。
組成The name travelled a long road: Old Welsh Caledbulch (modern Caledfwlch), from caled 'hard' + bwlch 'cleft, crack' — so, roughly, 'hard-cleaver'. Welsh became Medieval Latin Caliburnus in Geoffrey of Monmouth's history around 1136, then Old French Escalibor, then Middle English Excalaber. Along the way the Latin spelling was pulled towards calibs, a variant of chalybs, 'steel'. It is also related to Caladbolg, a legendary Irish sword whose name means literally 'hard-belly', that is, 'greedy, voracious'.
原始詞典資料1 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。
Excaliburname/ɛksˈkæ.lɪ.bɚ/
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The legendary sword of King Arthur, having magical properties.
- Until recently, suppression of ethnicity has perhaps been the leading characteristic of the trend of thought of these Jewish intellectuals. Some, like Noam Chomsky and I. F. Stone, have been considered by some Jews to be so suppressed—or at least so overcompensating for their being Jewish—as to be regarded as anti-Semitic on some issues. Such men flaunt their universalism like Excaliburs of truth and objectivity.
- And we would see fish swimming among the tall bulrushes that rose like Excaliburs out of the lake.
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。