- 1馬爾伯勒（英國 Wiltshire 的小鎮；以 Marlborough College 著名。英國的 public school 是貴的私立公學，不是台灣說的公立學校）
Marlborough is a town in Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. mostly meet the name because of Marlborough College, a famous and expensive school. In British English that kind of school is called a public school, though actually it is private and you pay a lot — not like a 公立 school in Taiwan. The town itself is old and not huge. You may also see the name on the Duke of Marlborough in British history, but the word you are learning here is the town and its school.
組成marl (a kind of chalky soil) + borough (an old English word for a town).
原始詞典資料13 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。
Marlboroughname/ˈmɔːlbɹə/
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A town and civil parish with a town council in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1969).
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Marlborough College
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A dukedom in the British peerage.
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A region, an and former province of the South Island, New Zealand.
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A territorial authority in New Zealand, more or less contiguous with the region; in full, Marlborough District.
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A rural town and locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia.
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A neighbourhood in north-east Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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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。