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In Scotland, a loch is a lake — a stretch of water with land around it. Scottish people almost never say lake for those places; they keep this old word. Loch Ness and Loch Lomond are the ones English meet first.
In Scotland在蘇格蘭, a loch loch is就是 a lake湖 —— a stretch of water一片水域 with land around it被陸地包圍的。Scottish people蘇格蘭人 almost never say幾乎不會叫 lake lake for those places那些地方; they keep他們保留 this old word這個古老的字。Loch Ness尼斯湖 and Loch Lomond和羅蒙湖 are the ones是……兩個 English learners meet first英語學習者最先認識的。
Though actually, not every loch is a quiet freshwater lake in the hills. Some lochs are arms of the sea, with salt water, only partly shut in by land — more like a long bay.
Though actually不過其實, not every loch不是每一個 loch is都是 a quiet freshwater lake in the hills山裡安靜的淡水湖。Some lochs有些 loch are其實是 arms of the sea海灣的延伸, with salt water裡面是鹹水, only partly shut in by land只有部分被陸地圍住 —— more like a long bay比較像一個長長的海灣。
Speakers outside Scotland still say loch when they mean those Scottish places; they do not use it for a lake in another country. In writing it stays loch, not lock, and the ch is the Scottish sound, not the ch in chair.
Speakers outside Scotland蘇格蘭以外的人 still say還是會說 loch loch when they mean講到……的時候 those Scottish places那些蘇格蘭的地方; they do not use it但不會用這個字 for a lake in another country來稱呼別的國家的湖。In writing寫的時候 it stays loch要拼成 loch, not lock不是 lock, and the ch而且這個 ch is the Scottish sound是蘇格蘭語的音, not the ch in chair不是 chair 裡面的 ch。
組成From Middle English lough, borrowed from Scottish Gaelic loch.
同家族的字
- loughthe Irish English spelling of the same Gaelic word
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。
Lochname
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A surname.
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A town in Bass Coast Shire and South Gippsland Shire, southern Victoria, Australia.
lochnoun詞源 1/lɔx/
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A lake.
- The greater part of Leuchars Loch belonged to the Inneses of Leuchars, Cotts to the Inneses of Innes; and while thus poſſeſſed, many unſucceſsful attempts to drain both, by canals, to the river Loſſie, ſeem to have been made. […] [A] very ordinary fall of rain raiſes it [the river] far beyond its natural bounds; and the immediate conſequence of ſuch floods, was, the ſpeat-water flowing into thoſe lochs, by the canal, and covering the adjacent meadows.
- But, enchanting as are the woodland banks of the quiet stream, there is to me a higher and yet more powerful charm in the solitary wildness or savage grandeur of the Highland loch.
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A bay or arm of the sea.
- It is well known, for instance, that the superiority of the herrings caught in the inland sea-lochs of Scotland is owing to the fish finding there a better feeding-ground than in the large and exposed open bays. Look, for instance, at Lochfyne: the land runs down to the water's edge, and the surface water or drainage carries with it rich food to fatten the loch, and put flesh on the herring; and what fish is finer, I would ask, than a Lochfyne herring?
- Little Loch Broom is a NW trending sea loch situated approximately 10 km west of Ullapool[…]. The flanks of the loch are characterized by rugged headlands backed by mountains such as An Teallach to the south and Beinn Ghobhlach to the north.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。