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An Irishman is a man from Ireland — or, depending on the speaker, a man whose family is Irish. It is a plain joining of Irish and man. You will see it in stories, older writing, and news. Today some people prefer “an Irish man” as two words, or “an Irish person,” because Irishman can sound a little like a ready-made type, as if one word could stand for a whole people. It only names a man; it does not cover Irish women. Keep the capital I, because Irish is a proper adjective. Though actually, many Irish people would rather you just say he is Irish.
愛爾蘭男人、愛爾蘭男子
組成Irish + man (from Middle English Irisshman).
同家族的字
- Irishthe first half of the word
- Irishwomanthe matching word for a woman
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。
Irishmannoun/ˈaɪɹɪʃmən/
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A man from Ireland.
- It is so absurd to advance into the presence of savage royalty after the fashion of an Irishman driving a pig to market, for that is what we looked like, and the idea nearly made me burst out laughing then and there.
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。