- 1野馬（美國西部野馬；福特跑車也譯作野馬）
A mustang is a small wild horse of North America, especially the west of the United States. Those horses come from animals Spanish people brought to the Americas, then lost or left; the horses went feral — once kept, then living free. The word came into English from Mexican Spanish. People also stretch the name: Ford called a car Mustang, and there was a World War II fighter plane with the same name. There is a rare verb, to mustang, meaning to catch or handle those wild horses, but you will hardly meet it. In everyday English the live senses are the horse and, in ads, the car. Though actually, a mustang is not just any horse running loose; the name belongs to that American feral kind.
組成Borrowed from Mexican Spanish mestengo, from Old Spanish mesteño or mestengo, a feral animal — one that was once kept and then went wild.
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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。
Mustangnoun詞源 1/ˈmʌˌstæŋ/
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An American sports car, manufactured by Ford Motor Company from 1964 till present, a cultural icon and the longest-produced Ford nameplate.
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The P-51 Mustang was a single-seat fighter plane designed by North American Aviation in 1940.
Mustangname詞源 2/ˈmʌˌstæŋ/
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A district of Nepal.
mustangnoun/ˈmʌˌstæŋ/
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A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west.
- The mustang pony, the invariable companion of the inhabitant of the prairie, whether he is rich or poor, is a little creature, apparently narrow-chested, and small across the loins.
- Having ridden a distance of two or three miles, Garey slackened his pace, and put the mustang to a slow walk.
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA merchant marine who joined the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer during the American Civil War.
- He is a product of the merchant marine and is one of the officers called "Mustangs" who entered the navy during the Civil War.
- He was the son of a famous artist, and was what we termed a "mustang" officer, who had come into the navy from the merchant service during the Civil War.
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA commissioned officer who started military service as an enlisted person.
- […] and the chief engineer is a "mustang" — that is, an officer who has risen from the ranks of enlisted men.
- Mustang— Officer who came up through the ranks. None better.
mustangverb/ˈmʌˌstæŋ/
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To hunt mustangs (wild horses), either for military use or for slaughter as pet food.
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