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Jerky has two unrelated meanings. As an adjective, it describes movement that is not smooth — sudden, quick starts and stops, like a jerky bus ride or jerky dance moves. As a noun, jerky is a snack food: strips of meat (usually beef) that have been dried and salted so they last a long time and become .
（形容詞）一頓一頓的、不流暢的；（名詞）肉乾
組成The movement sense comes from jerk (a sudden, sharp movement) + -y. The food sense comes from a completely different word, borrowed through Spanish from an indigenous South American language, meaning dried meat.
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- jerkonly the movement sense of jerky is built from jerk, a sudden sharp movement — the food sense is unrelated
原始詞典資料5 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。
jerkyadj詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɜːki/
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Characterized by physical jerking, or by sudden and uneven progress.
- jerky flight
- jerky movement
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Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person).
- jerky guy
- jerky behaviour
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datedAnxious; jumpy.
- Marrabel found an ideal crevice for his loot: tight, hidden, accessible. […] His only desire was to recover the coin and get away. But the lady seemed set here, and Marrabel, ignorant of her intentions, made his first bad move. He claimed the chair, fully expecting to be given it at once. […] In strictly feminine terms she told him to go to the devil, and Marrabel, now beginning to feel jerky, veered off.
jerkynoun詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒɜːki/
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Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.
jerkyverb詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒɜːki/
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To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.
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。