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    A faun is a god from old Roman stories. From the waist up he looks like a man; below that he has a goat's legs, and often a goat's horns and ears too.

    A fauna faun is指的是 a god from old Roman stories古羅馬故事裡的一個神。 From the waist up從腰部以上 he looks like a man他看起來像人; below that腰部以下 he has a goat's legs他有山羊的腿, and often a goat's horns and ears too通常還有山羊的角和耳朵。

    put fauns in the woods, looking after animals, playing , and sometimes chasing people in a wild, playful way.

    Storytellers說故事的人 put fauns in the woods把faun放在樹林裡, looking after animals照顧動物, playing pipes吹著笛子, and sometimes chasing people in a wild, playful way偶爾用一種狂野、愛玩鬧的方式追人。

    Though actually, the Romans also had one chief god named Faunus — a kind of lord of this woodland crowd — and later writers mixed fauns up with the Greek goat-men called satyrs, who look much the same.

    Though actually不過實際上, the Romans also had one chief god named Faunus羅馬人還有一位主神叫Faunus — a kind of lord of this woodland crowd算是這群林中神的頭頭 — and later writers mixed fauns up with後來的作家把faun跟…搞混 the Greek goat-men called satyrs希臘的羊人satyr, who look much the same兩者長得很像。

    In English today you mostly meet faun in books, paintings, and films, not in talk about real animals. It is a story-and-art word.

    In English today在今天的英文裡 you mostly meet faun你大多會在 in books, paintings, and films書、畫作和電影裡遇到faun, not in talk about real animals而不是在講真正動物的場合。 It它 is a story-and-art word是個故事和藝術用字。

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組成From Middle English fawn, from Latin Faunus, the Roman god of woods and herdsmen. English later kept the spelling faun for this goat-legged god.

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  • faunafrom Fauna, sister of the same god Faunus; both names sit behind these English words

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。

faunnoun/fɔːn/

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    human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.

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    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。