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/dʒeɪ/
A noisy, coloured bird that belongs to the same family as crows.
松鴉
複數 jays
核心畫面
Picture a bird about the size of a pigeon, with bright patches of colour and a harsh, carrying call — loud enough that you hear it before you see it. It belongs to the crow family, so it is clever and bold rather than sweet-voiced.
可以想成:一隻大概鴿子大小的鳥,身上有鮮豔的色塊,叫聲又粗又響——通常先聽到再看到。牠屬於烏鴉那一家族,所以個性聰明…更多收起
可以想成:一隻大概鴿子大小的鳥,身上有鮮豔的色塊,叫聲又粗又響——通常先聽到再看到。牠屬於烏鴉那一家族,所以個性聰明、大膽,不是那種歌聲婉轉的小鳥。台灣山區常見的台灣藍鵲也屬於同一個家族。原始詞典資料23 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。
Jayname詞源 1/d͡ʒeɪ/
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An English surname transferred from the nickname from Old French jai (“jay (bird)”), a nickname for a chatty or showy person.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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A placename.
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另外 3 個記錄的用法
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A placename.
Jayname詞源 2/d͡ʒeɪ/
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A diminutive of the male given names James, Jacob, Jack, John, or Jason, or for any other name beginning with ⟨J⟩; also used as a formal given name.
- “I started to think about it. He’s coming in on a two-seater experimental plane to pitch me to go on a five-seater experimental sub that he has built down to the ocean floor to see the Titanic,” Jay said.
- When Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft jumped into the state’s gubernatorial race last year, the Republican vowed to tackle a slew of culture war issues, promising to fight the “woke politics” of “left-wing” banks and touting how he used his position to enact a regulation targeting those financial firms.
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A female given name.
- To Lt. and Mrs. John Ellingston (Beth Vollstedt), a daughter, Jay Karen, on September 17, 1945.
- In 1993, my daughter Jay returned home aged 21 after a disastrous marriage.
Jayname詞源 3/d͡ʒeɪ/
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A male given name from Hindi.
jaynoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒeɪ/
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Any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy.
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Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.
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Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.
- They are the commonality of birddom, who furnish forth the mobs which bewilder the drunken-flighted jay when he jerks, shrieking in a series of blue hyphen-flashes through the air […]
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Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
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archaicA dull or ignorant person. It survives today in the term jaywalking.
- Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way He spends the good oof that his pater has made Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.
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obsoletePromiscuous woman; prostitute.
- Some jay of Italy, / Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him:
jaynoun詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒeɪ/
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The name of the Latin script letter J/j.
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slangA marijuana cigarette; a joint.
- Although sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and then smugly light up a big fat jay.
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。