喜樂美語
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    Nickel is a hard, silvery-white metal used to make coins and mix into other metals (like stainless steel). In the United States, 'a nickel' also means a small coin worth five cents, which used to be made partly of this metal.

    鎳（金屬元素）；（美國）五分硬幣

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原始詞典資料13 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。

Nickelname

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    A surname originating as a patronymic.

nickelnoun/ˈnɪk.əl/

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    A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.

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    A coin worth 5 cents.

    • That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!
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    slangFive dollars.

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    slangFive hundred dollars.

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    slangInterstate 5, a highway that runs along the West Coast of the United States.

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    slangA playing card with the rank of five.

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    slangA five-year prison sentence.

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    American-footballball-gamesfootballA defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
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    An airborne propaganda leaflet.

    • Colonel Hazeltine still had trouble persuading air commanders to drop the nickels. Pilots profanely protested against risking their necks on such foolishness. But in the end 15,000,000 leaflets a week were being dropped on Sicily and Italy.
    • Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare. Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets.

nickeladj/ˈnɪk.əl/

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    datedSynonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.

    • Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.

nickelverb/ˈnɪk.əl/

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    To plate with nickel.

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    To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.

    • The 422d Bombardment Squadron extended the scope of its operations considerably in April and "attacked" Norwegian targets with the leaflet bomb. The number of cities nickeled per mission also increased until it was common for fifteen to twenty-five to be scheduled as targets for a five-plane mission.
    • We flew numerous nickeling missions over the population centers of Southern France, dropping thousands of pounds of leaflets.

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。