- 1獒犬；馬斯提夫（常指英國獒）
A mastiff is a very large, heavy, strong dog, the kind people have long used to guard a house, a yard, or livestock. The body is thick, the head is broad, and a grown mastiff can look almost as big as a small person. Though actually, 'mastiff' is both a loose everyday word for this type of huge guardian dog and a name for certain breeds (the English Mastiff is the famous one). Many mastiffs today are family dogs, calm with people they know, even if strangers still feel the size. The name does not come from massive, even though the dog is massive — that is a lucky look-alike, not the real story.
組成It does not split into English pieces you can trust by eye. It comes from Old French for a tamed or household animal, from Latin mansuetus, 'tamed' — so the old idea is a kept, trained dog, not 'huge'.
原始詞典資料2 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。
mastiffnoun/ˈmæstɪf/
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One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and guard dogs.
- At which time, they wryte that Demoſthenes told the people of Athens, the fable of the ſheepe and woulues, how that the woulues came on a time, and willed the ſheepe, if they woulde haue peace with them, to deliuer them their maſtiues that kept them.
- As ſaluage Bull, whom two fierce maſtiues bayt, / When rancour doth with rage him once engore, / Forgets with wary warde them to awayt, / But with his dreadfull hornes them driues afore, / Or flings aloft or treades downe in the flore, / Breathing out wrath, and bellowing diſdaine, / That all the foreſt quakes to heare him rore: […]
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