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A monk is a man who has given his life to religion and lives apart from ordinary family life. He usually lives with other monks in a special house (a monastery), follows strict rules, and spends his days in prayer, work, and study.
A monk修士 is a是一個 has given his life to religion把一生獻給宗教 and lives apart from ordinary family life又離開一般家庭生活的 man男人。He他 usually通常 lives with other monks跟其他修士住 in a special house (a monastery)在一個特別的地方（修道院） follows strict rules遵守嚴格的規矩 and spends his days把日子花 in prayer, work, and study在禱告、工作和讀書上。
In Christian talk this is the usual picture: an all-male group, shut away from the town.
In Christian talk在基督宗教的說法裡 this is這是 the usual picture常見的畫面：an all-male group一群全是男性、shut away from the town跟城鎮隔開的人。
English also calls Buddhist men who live this kind of life monks, though the clothes, temples, and rules are not the same.
English英文 also calls也把 who live this kind of life過這種生活的 Buddhist men佛教男性 monks叫做monk（和尚、僧侶） though the clothes, temples, and rules are not the same雖然衣服、寺廟和規矩不一樣。
A monk is not the same as a priest: a priest’s job is often to serve people in a church, while a monk’s life is built around leaving that busy world.
A monk修士 is not the same as跟 a priest神父不一樣：a priest's job神父的工作 is often to通常是在 serve people服務人群 in a church教堂裡, while而 a monk's life修士的生活 is built around則是圍繞著 leaving that busy world離開那個忙碌的世界打造的。
The woman in the matching kind of life is a nun, not a monk.
in the matching kind of life過著相對應生活的 The woman女性 is是 a nun修女，not a monk不是修士。
People also stretch the word in jokes — “he lives like a monk” can mean he lives very quietly, with few pleasures — though that is only a picture, not the real religious job.
People人們 also stretch the word也會延伸這個字的用法 in jokes在玩笑裡 — "he lives like a monk"「he lives like a monk」 can mean可以是說 he lives very quietly他過得很安靜、with few pleasures很少享受 — though that is only a picture不過那只是一種比喻，not the real religious job不是真正的宗教工作。
組成From Middle English monk, from Old English munuc, from Late Latin monicus / monachus, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós) “single, solitary,” from μόνος (mónos) “alone.” The root idea is “the one who lives alone,” even though monks often live together.
原始詞典資料17 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。
Monkname
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A surname.
monknoun詞源 1/mʌŋk/
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A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
- This is believed to be the completeſt liſt of this voluminous, proſaick, and driveling monk, that can be formed, without acceſs, at leaſt, to every manuſcript library in the kingdom, which would be very difficult, if not imposſible, to obtain.
- In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]
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In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
- Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one, while in the case of monk and crusader there must have been a sustaining purpose, and possibly a great abnegation, a leaving of lands and possessions.”
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slangSomeone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
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slangAn unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
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slangA judge.
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archaicmediaprintingpublishingAn inkblot.
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A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
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The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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The monkfish.
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historicalA fuse for firing mines.
monkverb詞源 1/mʌŋk/
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To be a monk.
- "Ah!" she cried, "thou art the prettiest little monk that ever monked it in this blessed, amorous town of Constance!"
- Good people, if you're ever short of a job, don't take up monking for a living.
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To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.
- Many a scholar, making wings of candlewicks to flap away old darkness, monked his life to fasting long while feasting upon new light.
- ...drinking: monking on a mountain: plodding in self-inflicted darkness so that the entrance into light would be heightened and supercharged: sacrifice and gain: the meek shall inherit the earth.
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To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.
- The Avatar spoke gently as she responded to his jibe. "Now fucking get aboard and stop monking on like a schoolboy, you silly earplug.
- "You just go into the swamp and keep monking around, and maybe in a week er so, somebody'll open up and begin shooting at you, and if you live long enough to git curious about it, that'll be Tom Keefer."
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To be intoxicated or confused.
- I looked up from the thick cotton mat, unsure where my legs were. “She looks monked up.” “maybe her brain is damaged, huh, miss Bryant?”
- She looked down at herself and said, “Oh, I got that from monking.” “From what?” “Monking. You ain't never done meth, girl?” she said.
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To attach so that it sticks out.
- Molten roofing north, lead dripping down south, stand like those immobilized columns of arctic water west, stalagmites, monked and housed or stamped and dudleyed east, in school texts.
- All these controls and screens are monked on to a massive network of computers that coordinates the sights.
monknoun詞源 2/mʌŋk/
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A monkey.
- ‘We wuz talkin’ and the monk got loose, and she sent me off to catch him.’
- It seems that the big monk up on the roof is nobody but Bongo, who is a gorilla belonging to the circus, and one of the very few gorillas of any account in this country, or anywhere else, as far as this goes, because good gorillas are very scarce, indeed.
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。