- 1軍笛、小橫笛（軍樂隊裡那種音又尖又亮的笛子；不是直笛，也不是短笛 piccolo 的正式名稱）。
A fife is a small, high, sharp-sounding flute, often played with drums in a military band. You hold it sideways, like a flute, and it is loud enough to cut through marching feet. You hear it in old army music and in some folk bands. Though actually, it is not the word five, and it is not exactly a either, even though both are small and high: a fife is a simpler marching instrument, with finger holes, and it belongs to that drum-and-pipe sound. English took it from German Pfeife, a whistle or pipe, so it is a cousin of pipe. As a verb, to fife means to play that instrument, but you will meet the noun far more.
組成From German Pfeife, “whistle, smoking pipe”. A doublet of pipe.
同家族的字
- pipea doublet: same older idea of a tube you blow
原始詞典資料9 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。
Fifename/ˈfʌɪf/
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A traditional county of Scotland succeeded by Fife Region in 1975, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.
- Ross: Will you to Scone? Macduff: No, cousin, I'll to Fife.
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A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
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A place in the United States:
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A place in the United States:
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A place in the United States:
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A surname.
fifenoun詞源 1/ˈfaɪf/
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A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
fifeverb詞源 1/ˈfaɪf/
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To play this instrument.
fifenum詞源 2/ˈfaɪf/
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Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire or nine.
- “Change course to two fife zero and reduce height to fifteen hundred feet.” That “fife,” thought Alan, sounded very affected; but it had a good survival value in a noisy background.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。