- 1那一掛的、那號人物（多半帶點距離或諷刺）
Ilk means a particular type or kind, almost always in the phrase of that ilk or of his/her ilk. It is a little old-fashioned, and in modern English it often carries a cool or even flavour: “politicians of that ilk” usually means people like that, and I am not praising them. You will hear it in newspapers, novels, and slightly sarcastic adult talk, not much from children. Though actually, the oldest proud use was Scottish: MacDonald of that ilk meant a MacDonald from the place also called MacDonald — the same name as the family. From “the same family / the same place,” the word slowly came to mean “that type.” sometimes try to use it like type (“an ilk of…”), but native English almost always keeps of that ilk.
組成From Old English ilca, “the same,” passed down through Middle English ilke. The “type” meaning grew out of the Scottish phrase of that ilk, first used of families whose land had the same name as the family; from “same family” it came to mean “that kind.” Scholars reconstruct an older Germanic compound of a word for “he/it” plus a piece related to “body.”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
ilkadj/ɪlk/
- 1
Very; same.
- By semblaunt, was that ilke image
ilknoun/ɪlk/
- 1
A type, race, or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
- "Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago[…]
- The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。