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The nape is the bottom part of the back of your neck, right where the hair ends and the neck meets the shoulders. If you lift a person’s hair at the back, the skin you see there is the nape. The natural English chunk is often the nape of the neck, not just nape by itself. It is a careful body word — in everyday talk many people just say the back of my neck. You will meet it in descriptions of haircuts, collars, and someone kissing or touching that spot.
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組成From Middle English nape. Scholars are not sure where it came from. One idea: Old French hanap (a goblet), from a Germanic word for a cup, because there is a little hollow at the base of the skull. Another idea: Old French nape / nappe (a cloth), from Latin mappa (a cloth) — and if that is right, it would be a cousin of map, mop, and nappe. We cannot pick one with a straight face, so both stay as “possibly.”
原始詞典資料6 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。
napenoun詞源 1/neɪp/
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe back part of the neck.
- He was still stroking Radar, long glides of his hand from nape to tail.
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyThe part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.
napenoun詞源 2/neɪp/
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obsoleteA tablecloth.
napenoun詞源 3/neɪp/
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsNapalm.
- RHAH: They got through Alpha Company! Anything behind you don't identify itself, blow it away. Two - air strike's coming in. They gonna lay snake and nape right on the perimeter so stay tight in your holes and don't leave 'em.
napeverb詞源 3/neɪp/
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo bombard with napalm.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。