喜樂美語
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    This is a very offensive word for a person whose parents are of different . In older American English it was used especially of someone with one white parent and one Native American parent, as if a human were an animal “breed.” Do not use it, even if you hear it in an old film or a history book. The harm is in the word itself, not only in a rude tone of voice. Say mixed-race or , or — better — name the person’s actual background if they are happy to share it.

    混血（極冒犯的舊稱，尤其指白人與美洲原住民；不要用）

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成half- + breed.

同家族的字

  • halfthe prefix meaning one of two parts
  • breeda type or line of living things — the animal sense is why this word is so cruel about people

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。

Half-Breednoun

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    A member of the Half-Breeds, a former Republican political party during the Gilded Age.

half-breednoun

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    offensivederogatoryslurdatedA person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).

    • Except for a few half-breeds in the town, there are no native Christians in the island of Timor.
    • It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.
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    A hybrid animal or plant.

half-breedadj

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    offensivederogatorydatedhaving dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry

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    Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits

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。