喜樂美語
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    A moat is a deep, wide ditch dug around a castle or fort, usually filled with water, built so enemies couldn't easily attack or climb the walls. Today people mostly use the word when talking about old castles, or sometimes as a comparison - like a company building a 'competitive moat,' meaning something that protects it from competitors.

    護城河

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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原始詞典資料7 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。

Moatname

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    A surname.

moatnoun/məʊt/

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    A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.

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    businessA characteristic of a business that enhances its resilience against competitive pressures, arising from the inherent nature of its products, services, brand, or other structural advantages.

    • No matter how good your company's product is or how quickly the industry is growing, if there is no moat, competitors will invade your castle and burn it down.
    • “I think ‘moats’ are lame,” Mr. Musk had said during a Tesla earnings call. It was a criticism of an economic principle that Mr. Buffett had coined in 1999 and that has become something of a mantra for his faithful: Invest in businesses “that have wide, sustainable moats around them.”
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    A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.

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    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA clear ring outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.

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    obsoleteA hill or mound.

moatverb/məʊt/

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    To surround with a moat.

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。