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A galleon was a large sailing ship, used especially by Spain from the 1400s to the 1600s. It was high-sided, with several decks and a lot of sail, built to carry cargo — often silver — and also to fight.
A galleon wasgalleon 是a large sailing ship一種大型帆船used especially by Spain特別是西班牙使用的from the 1400s to the 1600s從十五世紀到十七世紀間It was high-sided船身很高with several decks and a lot of sail有好幾層甲板和很多帆built to carry cargo是用來載貨的often silver常常是載銀and also to fight也用來打仗
English speakers now meet the word in history, museums, and pirate stories more than at sea; nobody builds working galleons as everyday ships.
English speakers now meet the word現在說英文的人會遇到這個字in history, museums, and pirate stories比較常在歷史、博物館和海盜故事裡more than at sea而不是在海上nobody builds working galleons沒有人會造能航行的 galleonas everyday ships當作日常用船
The word spread around the Mediterranean from about the 12th century and meant different ships in different ports before it settled on this big Spanish sailing type. It is not a galley (a ship moved with oars) and not a gallon (a measure of liquid), though galleon did start as a "bigger" relative of galley.
The word spread around the Mediterranean這個字在地中海一帶流傳from about the 12th century大約從十二世紀開始and meant different ships in different ports在不同港口曾指不同的船before it settled on後來才固定指this big Spanish sailing type這種西班牙大帆船It is not a galley它不是 galley(a ship moved with oars)（用槳划的船）and not a gallon也不是 gallon(a measure of liquid)（液體的容量單位）though galleon did start as不過 galleon 一開始確實是a "bigger" relative of galleygalley 的「加大版」親戚
組成From Middle French galion or Spanish galeón. Originally an augmentative — a "bigger" form — of a Romance word related to galley. The word spread around the Mediterranean from the 12th century, taking on different meanings by place and time.
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- galleygalleon began as a bigger kind of galley; the designs later went different ways
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。
galleonnoun/ˈɡæ.li.ən/
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A large, three-masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.
- The next day he returned to camp with the balance of his ingots, and when they were stored on board the cruiser Captain Dufranne said he felt like the commander of an old-time Spanish galleon returning from the treasure cities of the Aztecs. “I don’t know what minute my crew will cut my throat, and take over the ship,” he added.
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。