- 1胡狼（亞洲、非洲的犬科動物，常吃大型動物吃剩的）。中文「豺狼」多半是罵人兇殘，不是這種動物的日常名。
A jackal is a wild animal in the dog family. It lives in parts of Asia and Africa, looks like a small, slim dog or a small wolf, and is well known for eating what larger hunters leave — the remaining parts of dead animals — though jackals also hunt small prey and eat fruit. They often call at night. People stretch the word to a human who hangs around a stronger person to pick up leftover gain, or who does the dirty work while someone else keeps the clean name. That stretch is and a bit literary; the home meaning is the animal. The English word looks like Jack, but it is not the name Jack and does not come from it. Informal-to-neutral: the animal sense is ordinary in nature writing; the human insult is sharper.
組成Not from the name Jack. English took it from French chacal, from Turkish çakal, from Persian, from a Sanskrit word for this animal. The jack- spelling is just that foreign word written in English clothes.
原始詞典資料6 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。
jackalnoun/ˈd͡ʒækəl/
- 1
Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
- In passing, it also mentions how the jackal and the tiger acquired their reddish spots. All of the animals referred to, except the deer, have tricksterlike personalities, both in this tale and in other story contexts. But the jackal is the most renowned of all for roguishness.
- Until recently, scientists thought Ethiopian wolves were a type of jackal. They gave Ethiopian wolves names like Semien jackal, Simenian jackal, or Ethiopian jackal.
- 2
A person who performs menial or routine tasks; a dogsbody.
- A nephew of hers, after receiving some learning at her ladyship's expence, got a commission, and fell upon the field of Waterloo; another is still at her heels, as a sort of jackall to fetch and carry when required.
- 3
derogatoryA person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
- 4
rareslangA jack (the playing card).
- 5
A player who steals the ball at the tackle.
jackalverb/ˈd͡ʒækəl/
- 1
To perform menial or routine tasks
- They have jackalled for the great beast, to pick in turns the bones of each other; they have subserved those above, to oppress and defraud those below; and they are suffering, and, so far as classes can, justly suffering their purgation.
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。