喜樂美語
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    A figurine is a small model of a person or an animal, made to look at and to a room, not to play a running game with. People set figurines on a shelf, a , or in a glass cabinet. They may be porcelain, glass, wood, or plastic: a china , a little cat, a souvenir dancer. The word feels tidy and a little old-fashioned. Younger speakers may just say figure or statue. It is still, pretty, and small enough to hold. It is not figure meaning a number, and not figure meaning a person’s body.

    小雕像；小瓷偶。收藏用的玩具模型，台灣常說「公仔」，意思很近，但 figurine 更偏擺著看的小雕像。

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組成Borrowed from French figurine: figure + -ine. -ine here is a “small thing” ending, so the whole word is “a little figure.”

同家族的字

  • figurethe model is a small figure in the “shaped form” sense
  • figuredsame figure; figured cloth has little shapes as a pattern

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。

figurinenoun/fɪɡ(j)əˈɹin/

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    A small carved or molded figure; a statuette.

    • Galvanised by this knowledge, the figurine family take to exercise and healthy eating in the park, forming themselves into the key words "Eat" (better), "Move" (more) and "Live" (longer) of the government's urgings and soon the municipal landscape is filled with other happy, healthier families who, incidentally, look even more delicious en masse.
    • While figurines were an integral part of Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age life, they disappear from society until the later Nuragic period.[…]The lack of figurines is a conscious choice, as is the decision to produce over 500 bronze figurines (bronzetti) in phases III and IV of the Nuragic period.

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。