喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the actual animal: a wild creature like a small dog, reddish-brown, with a sharp pointed face, quick eyes and a thick bushy tail, slipping quietly through fields and woods. In folk stories the fox is the famous — it survives by being quick, sly and clever rather than strong — and almost every other meaning of the word leans on that one reputation.

可以想成那隻真實的動物：一隻像小狗的野生動物，紅棕色的毛、尖尖的臉、機警的眼睛、一條濃密的大尾巴，安靜地穿過田野和樹…更多收起可以想成那隻真實的動物：一隻像小狗的野生動物，紅棕色的毛、尖尖的臉、機警的眼睛、一條濃密的大尾巴，安靜地穿過田野和樹林。在民間故事裡，狐狸是有名的「狡猾角色」——牠靠機靈、靠耍小聰明活下來，而不是靠力氣。fox 後面幾乎每一個意思，都是從牠這個「又聰明又會騙」的名聲長出來的。

Three branches

那隻動物本身

這一群最貼近核心畫面：先是狐狸這隻動物本身，接著是從牠身上取下、拿來做暖衣的毛皮——是同一隻動物，只是從「活著跑來跑去的牠」換到「牠身上那層毛」。

the animal · noun · B2

A wild reddish-brown animal with a pointed face, bushy tail, and the shape of a small dog.

狐狸

像狐狸一樣狡猾的人

把狐狸的名聲套到人身上。狐狸給人的印象是機警、會算計、不好對付，所以說一個人是 fox，是在把這股「精明狡猾」的味道貼到他身上；後來在美式口語裡又延伸出「迷人到讓人移不開眼」的意思。

cunning person · noun · B2

Someone who is clever at getting what they want by tricking other people.

機靈鬼／狡猾的人

像狐狸一樣去騙、去難倒人（動詞）

把狐狸的狡猾變成一個動作：fox someone 就是「對某人施展狐狸那一套」。可以是用巧計騙過、唬住對方，也可以是把對方搞得一頭霧水、想不通——都是讓對方在你面前居於下風，就像獵人鬥不過狐狸一樣。

trick cleverly · verb · B2

To fool someone by being clever, or to leave them confused.

巧妙地騙過／唬住

原始詞典資料48 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。

Foxnoun

  • 1

    A radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter F.

Foxname

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    A surname transferred from the common noun derived from the name of the animal.

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    A male given name.

  • 3

    broadcastingmediaFox Broadcasting Company, a large television network in the United States.

    • I watched a great show on Fox last night.
    • In some ways, it’s a pragmatic practice: Fox anchors such as Sean Hannity and, at one point, Tucker Carlson routinely attack Milley – and during the Trump years, there was also a reasonable expectation that the president would be talking to the hosts of those shows.
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另外 7 個記錄的用法
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Foxnoun

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    ball-gamesgameshobbiesSomeone connected with Leicester City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

    • The Foxes played with plenty of initiative in the original tie at the Walkers Stadium and they started this tie in impressively positive fashion, producing the game's first two chances: Andy King's goal-bound half-volley from Steve Howard's header down was tipped over by Joe Hart and Sol Bamba headed the resultant corner wide.

foxnoun/fɒks/

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    A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups:

    • A group of foxes is called a skulk.
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    A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups:

    • The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
    • The fox went out on a chase one night, / he prayed to the Moon to give him light, / for he had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o. / He had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o.
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    A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups:

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    The fur of a fox.

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    A fox terrier.

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    A flying fox.

    • Their screeches heralded excited talk from the hurrying troops, for flying fox is a delicacy. The densely-foliaged trees hedged a sombre pool, deep and quiet. As the slain foxes dropped into the water the snouts of river crocodiles popped up and devoured them.
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    The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.

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    A cunning person.

    • As for thee, false friend, subtle fox, unfaithful servant, this long time am I grown weary of thee slinking up and down my palace devising darkly things I know not: thou, that art nought akin to Witchland, but an outlander, a Goblin exile, a serpent warmed in my bosom to my hurt.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
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    slangA physically attractive person, typically a woman.

    • And Jerry was cute, you know, I liked him, but Frank was a total fox. And he was rougher than Jerry, you know, not so cultured.
    • It wasn't just that Jayne was a fox – although, fuck, was she ever a fox. That arse, those tits, those lips. They could have a really good time together.
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    slangA person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.

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    nauticaltransportA small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.

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    engineeringmechanical-engineeringmechanicsA wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.

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    A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.

    • Locating a hidden transmitter (the fox) has been a popular ham activity for many years.
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    cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe fourteenth Lenormand card.

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    obsoleteA sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.

    • Thou diest on point of fox.
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    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationAir-to-air weapon launched.

    • Got a lock! Fox, Fox!
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    human-sciencesphilosophysciencesSomeone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.

    • Austin was patiently and painstakingly concerned with truth within limitations. He was a hedgehog, not a fox.
    • Dewey was a hedgehog rather than a fox; he spent his life trying to articulate and restate a single vision, and in the writings of his third decade he already exhibits the tension I have claimed to find in the later writings.

foxverb/fɒks/

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    To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.

    • I see a number of gallants every where, whoſe incomes come in yearely by ſet numbers, but runne out daily, ſans number. […] And when I ſee them often foxed, me thinke the Proverbe ſutes thoſe ſutes, what is the fox but his caſe? I ſhould thinke them to be Eutrapelus his enemies, whom he cloathed richly to make them ſpend freely, and grow deboſhed.
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    To sham, to dissemble.

    • He was not foxing. No, no: he was sick really.
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    To confuse or baffle (someone).

    • This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.
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    To act slyly or craftily.

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    datedTo cheat or rob.

    • Have you any news of Miriam? As I have had no reply to my delicately worded epistle, I can only presume that you foxed me with the wrong address, and that you are yourself already engaged to be married to her.
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    To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)

    • The pages of the book show distinct foxing.
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    To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.

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    To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.

    • I drank […] so much wine that I was almost foxed.
  • 10

    To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

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。