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    Mother-of-pearl is the hard, smooth, shiny lining inside some shells — oysters, , . It looks pale, often white or cream, but when you turn it in the light a soft rainbow runs across it.

    Mother-of-pearl mother-of-pearl是 the hard, smooth, shiny lining inside some shells一些貝殼——oysters, abalone, musselsoysters（牡蠣）、abalone（鮑魚）、mussels（淡菜）——裡面又硬又滑又亮的內層. It它 looks看起來 pale, often white or cream偏白，常常是白色或米色, but但是 when you turn it in the light把它轉到光下時 a soft rainbow runs across it會有一道柔和的彩虹光滑過.

    People cut it into buttons, beads, jewellery, and tiny inlaid pictures on boxes, furniture, and instruments.

    People人們 cut it把它切成 into buttons, beads, jewellery鈕扣、珠子、珠寶, and和 tiny inlaid pictures on boxes, furniture, and instruments盒子、家具、樂器上鑲嵌的小圖案.

    Though actually, it is not a kind of pearl. It is the shell's inner coat; a pearl may grow in that same kind of shell, which is why the old name treats the lining as the “mother.” Jewellers and craftspeople still say mother-of-pearl; the science word is the same stuff, just less everyday.

    Though actually不過事實上, it它 is not a kind of pearl不是一種珍珠. It它 is是 the shell's inner coat貝殼的內層; a pearl珍珠 may grow in that same kind of shell也可能長在同一種貝殼裡, which is why所以 the old name treats the lining as the "mother"古人才把這層內殼叫做「母」. Jewellers and craftspeople珠寶商和工匠 still say還是說 mother-of-pearlmother-of-pearl; the science word科學上的說法 nacrenacre is是 the same stuff同樣的東西, just less everyday只是比較不常用.

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組成A calque of Latin māter perlārum, “mother of pearls.” The nacre-lined shell is the belly — the “mother” — in which pearls are produced. The first part was perhaps also mixed, in popular imagination, with an old word mother meaning “dregs,” but the pearl-mother picture is the one that stuck.

同家族的字

  • pearlthe round gem that can grow inside the same kind of shell
  • motherhere it means the shell that holds and makes the pearl, not a woman

原始詞典資料4 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。

mother-of-pearlnoun/ˌmʌðəɹ əv ˈpɜː(ɹ)l/

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    The hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells; nacre.

    • Ah, those Indian warehouses made the morning pass in a charming manner! many a soft confession was whispered over a huge china jar; many a heart has succumbed to a suite of mother-of-pearl card-box and counters; and as to the shawls, why, the whole feminine world has long ago acknowledged them to be irresistible.
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    A butterfly of the genus Salamis.

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    A butterfly of the species Patania ruralis.

mother-of-pearladj/ˌmʌðəɹ əv ˈpɜː(ɹ)l/

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    Made from or looking like mother-of-pearl; iridescent or pearly.

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。