- 1開山刀、砍刀（台灣日常多說開山刀）
A machete is a large knife with a broad, heavy blade. People use it as a tool — to cut a path through plants, to harvest sugar cane or coconuts, to clear bush — and sometimes as a weapon. It is not a kitchen knife and not quite a sword: you usually swing the long blade. The word came into English from Spanish, so it still feels a little borrowed. You meet it in talk about farms in hot countries, in adventure stories, and in the news. Though actually, shops use machete for a whole family of big cutting knives, not one exact shape, so a “bush knife” or “cane knife” may be the same kind of thing under another name.
組成From Spanish machete, a smaller-form of macho “sledgehammer.” That Spanish word goes back to Latin mattea, a kind of mallet, perhaps from mactare “to kill as a sacrifice.” English mace (the old hitting-weapon, not the spice) is a relative, as is French massue. The English verb to machete is just the noun used as a verb.
原始詞典資料3 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。
machetenoun/məˈʃɛ.ti/
- 1
A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang
- It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air. A boy with a machete cuts the one remaining line, which pops up and lashes him across the face.
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A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
macheteverb/məˈʃɛ.ti/
- 1
To cut or chop with a machete.
- After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.
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