喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈmɑːrtn/ · /ˈmɑːtɪn/燕子（毛腳燕類）

    A small bird like a swallow, with a short tail, that catches insects while flying.

    「martin」是一種小鳥，長得很像 swallow（燕子），尾巴短短的、開叉。牠們在空中一邊飛一邊抓小蟲吃，常在房子屋簷下築泥巢。中文沒有單一對應的名字，常譯作「毛腳燕」或籠統說「燕子的一種」。

    示範例句 · Example

    A martin built a small mud nest under the roof of our house.

    中文翻譯一隻毛腳燕在我們房子的屋頂下築了一個小小的泥巢。

    常見搭配

    • house martin

      白腹毛腳燕

      a martin that nests on buildings

      House martins often build their nests under the edge of a roof.

    • sand martin

      灰沙燕

      a martin that nests in holes in sandy banks

      Sand martins dig holes in the riverbank to make their nests.

    意思相近

    swallowhouse martinsand martin

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle French martin (compare French martinet).

源自中古法文 martin，可比較法文 martinet。

Wiktionary

You can picture a martin as a small swallow-like bird with a short tail, swooping through the air to catch insects on the wing. There is just one meaning here: the bird itself.

可以把 martin 想成一種像燕子的小鳥，尾巴短短的、分岔，在空中俯衝穿梭、邊飛邊抓蟲子。這個字就只有一個意思：這種鳥本身。

martins

意思相近

swallowhouse martinsand martin

原始詞典資料30 筆記錄

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Martinname/ˈmɑː.tɪn/

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    A male given name from Latin originally given in honor of a fourth century soldier-saint.

    • Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, / Since I have entered into these wars.
    • Luther was not born in the year 1483, but in 84; and not on the 22nd day of October, but on the 10th of November, the eve of Martinmas day, from whence he had the name of Martin. - - - Now you see, brother Toby, he would say, looking up, "that christian names are not such indifferent things;" - Had Luther here been called by any other name but Martin, he would have been damned to all eternity - Not that I look upon Martin, he would add, as a good name - far from it - 'tis something better than a neutral, and but a little - yet little as it is, you see it was of some service to him.
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    A surname.

    • It all started when Nick Farmer bought George R. R. Martin a drink, but the plot really thickened when the linguist met Martin’s then-assistant Ty Franck.
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martinnoun詞源 1/ˈmɑː.tɪn/

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    Many of the various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying.

    • Roof-haunting martins warm their eggs: / In these, in those the life is stay’d.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。