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A mare is an adult female horse. People also use it for adult females of some other animals, like donkeys or , but 'mare' by itself almost always makes people think of horses. It's a normal, everyday word — not formal, not slang.
母馬
原始詞典資料9 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。
Marename
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A diminutive of the female given names Mary, Maria, Marianne, or other female names beginning with Mar- , from Hebrew.
marenoun詞源 1/mɛə/
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An adult female horse.
- But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
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derogatoryslangA foolish woman.
- The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?
marenoun詞源 2/mɛə/
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obsoletehistoricalA type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
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A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
- I'm having a complete mare today.
marenoun詞源 3/ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/
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astronomynatural-sciencesplanetologyA large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon.
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astronomynatural-sciencesplanetologyOn Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
- Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)
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。