喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˌkæŋɡəˈruː/袋鼠

    A large animal from Australia that moves by jumping on its strong back legs, and carries its baby in a pouch — a special pocket of skin — on the front of its stomach.

    kangaroo 就是澳洲的袋鼠。英文人講到 kangaroo，心裡通常會浮現兩個畫面：一個是用強壯的後腿一跳一跳地往前（動作動詞用 hop，不是 run 也不是 walk），另一個是肚子前面那個裝小寶寶的皮膚口袋（pouch，中文叫育兒袋）。它是可數名詞，一隻寫 a kangaroo，很多隻要加 -s 寫成 kangaroos。

    示範例句 · Example

    At the zoo, Mei watched a kangaroo hop across the grass on its strong back legs.

    中文翻譯在動物園，美看著一隻袋鼠用牠強壯的後腿跳過草地。

    常見搭配

    • a baby kangaroo

      小袋鼠（寶寶）

      a very young kangaroo, which lives in its mother's pouch

      A baby kangaroo is so small at first that you can only see its head.

    • hop like a kangaroo

      像袋鼠一樣跳

      to move forward with both feet together, the way a kangaroo does

      The children hopped like kangaroos all the way to the school gate.

    • a kangaroo's pouch

      袋鼠的育兒袋

      the pocket of skin on a kangaroo's stomach where its baby stays

      The baby looked out of the kangaroo's pouch and then went back inside.

    • a mob of kangaroos

      一群袋鼠

      a group of kangaroos living or moving together

      A mob of kangaroos crossed the field just after sunrise.

    • a red kangaroo

      紅袋鼠

      the largest kind of kangaroo, with reddish-brown fur

      A red kangaroo can be taller than your father.

    意思相近

    roo

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru 'eastern grey kangaroo'.

借自澳洲 Guugu Yimidhirr 語 gangurru，指東部灰袋鼠。

Wiktionary

Picture a large Australian animal built around two things: very strong back legs that push it forward in long jumps instead of steps, and a pouch — a pocket of skin on the mother's front — where the tiny baby rides and feeds. Big feet, heavy tail for balance, small front arms.

可以想成一種澳洲的大型動物，畫面圍著兩個特徵長出來：一是特別有力的後腿，牠不是用走的，而是一跳一跳往前推進；二是媽媽肚子前面那個由皮膚形成的育兒袋（pouch），很小的幼獸就待在裡面吃奶、跟著移動。再配上大腳掌、用來平衡的粗尾巴，還有短短的前肢。

kangaroos

意思相近

roo

原始詞典資料7 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。

kangaroonoun/ˌkæːŋ.ɡəˈɹʉː/

  • 1

    A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia and New Guinea.

    • Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru […].
    • In the woods are the kanguroo, the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].
  • 2

    A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.

kangarooverb/ˌkæːŋ.ɡəˈɹʉː/

  • 1

    To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.

  • 2

    To hunt kangaroo.

  • 3

    To move like a kangaroo.

kangarooadj/ˌkæːŋ.ɡəˈɹʉː/

  • 1

    Of or relating to Australia.

    • The rapid growth in Kangaroo bond issues in the Australian market has given rise to an interest in the nature, trend and impact of this type of bond on Australia's international investment statistics. While Kangaroo bonds have been issued for a ...
    • Furthermore, the issuers access the kangaroo bond market in order to diversify their funding sources. ... driven by factors such as the relative cost of issuance, including hedging costs and the liquidity of underlying derivative and bond markets.
  • 2

    businessfinanceCharacterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.

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。