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A goblin is a small, ugly creature in children’s stories, fairy tales, and games. Goblins like to trick people, steal things, or make trouble. They are usually not huge monsters; they are more like naughty little spirits. In many books they live in caves, forests, or underground. The word belongs to fiction and games, not to a real animal.
小妖精；哥布林（電玩、奇幻故事常用）
組成From Middle English gobelyn, from Old Northern French gobelin. It may blend an old Dutch word for a goblin (compare Dutch kabouter, German Kobold) and Late Latin cobalus, from Ancient Greek kobalos (“rogue, knave; goblin”). It took the place of native Old English pūca, which lives on in English as puck.
原始詞典資料5 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。
goblinnoun/ˈɡɒb.lɪn/
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Traditionally, a supernatural being of folklore, typically small and grotesque or misshapen, that commonly haunts dark places, often mischievous or malevolent; a type of evil elf, sprite, or demon.
- From yͤ hagg & hungry Goblin, yͭ into raggs would rend yee, & yͤ spirit yͭ stand’s by yͤ naked man,
- "[…]If he had struck a stroke more to the side just here," said the goblin, tapping the very stone, as it seemed to Curdie, against which his head lay, "he would have been through; but he's a couple of yards past it now, and if he follow the lode it will be a week before it leads him in.[…]"
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In later fantasy literature, an evil and grotesquely ugly humanoid, typically powerful and warlike, often associated with orcs and trolls.
- At last the goblins had a chance to rid themselves of one of the troublesome defenders, and two goblin warriors snatched the opportunity.
- The goblin shifted the two younger ones closer to him. It looked like he was hiding behind them, using them as a shield. The goblin looked pure evil. His eyes were brown.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesA hoodoo.
- Layers of sandstone serve as capstones of pillars and buttes; other layers of differing hardness yield erosional goblins of myriad form.
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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。