喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can hold the picture of the big gold-brown cat with a mane — strong, dominant, the one everyone calls the 'king of beasts'. That sense of a powerful, top animal is what the other meanings feed off.

可以想成那隻金棕色、脖子上有鬃毛的大貓——強壯、稱王、大家口中的「百獸之王」。牠那種「最強、最兇、居高位」的形象，正…更多收起可以想成那隻金棕色、脖子上有鬃毛的大貓——強壯、稱王、大家口中的「百獸之王」。牠那種「最強、最兇、居高位」的形象，正是其他意思延伸出去的養分。

原始詞典資料14 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。

Lionname

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    astrologyastronomyhuman-sciencesThe constellation and zodiacal sign Leo.

    • The Lion reigneth in the Back, Sides, Bones, Sinews and Griſles.
    • Those stars said to belong to the Ram might as well be supposed to belong to the Bull or the Lion.

Lionnoun

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    American-footballball-gamesfootballA player for National Football League's Detroit Lions.

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    ball-gamesfootballgamesA player for Canadian Football League's B.C. Lions.

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    ball-gamesgameshobbiesA player for the England football team.

  • 4

    A player or supporter of the Brisbane Lions.

lionnoun/ˈlaɪən/

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    A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.

    • Tigers and lions share a common ancestor from a few million years ago.
    • For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
  • 2

    A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe.

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    Any of various extant and extinct big cats, especially the mountain lion.

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    A Chinese foo dog.

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    A person who shows attributes associated with the lion, such as strength, courage, or ferocity.

    • It was said of [Edward Plantaganet] that ‘he was a lion for pride and ferocity but a pard for inconstancy and changeableness, not keeping his word or promise but excusing himself with fair words’.
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    A famous person regarded with interest and curiosity.

    • During this period, we were the lions of the neighbourhood; and, no doubt, strangers from the distant villages were taken to see the "Karhowrees" (white men), in the same way that countrymen, in a city, are gallanted to the Zoological Gardens.
    • Such society was far more enjoyable than that of Edinburgh, for here he was not a lion, but a man.
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    A light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion.

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    historicalAn old Scottish coin, with a lion on the obverse, worth 74 shillings.

lionadj/ˈlaɪən/

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    Of the light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion.

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。