喜樂美語
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    A horsefly is a big, heavy fly — louder and thicker than the little flies in the kitchen. It bites horses and cows to drink blood, and it will bite people too if they stand still near grass or water in summer. The bite can hurt and then . You meet the word on farms, in the countryside, and in nature talk. It is an ordinary name, not slang and not a fancy science word. Though actually, it is not a horse that flies. It is only a fly, named because horses are the animals it most often goes after.

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組成horse + fly. From Middle English horse fliȝe: a fly that bothers horses.

同家族的字

  • houseflyanother kind of fly; the second half is the same insect word
  • flythe insect this is a kind of

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。

horseflynoun/ˈhoɹsˌflaɪ/

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    Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).

    • It was not a horsefly and it was not a deerfly; it was bigger than either.

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。