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Oaken means made of oak, or having the look and feel of oak: an oaken door, an oaken chest, oaken beams in an old hall. You will meet it in older books, hymns, and fantasy more than in a furniture shop. In ordinary English people just say oak: an oak table, oak floors. Oaken is the extra-old-fashioned cousin, built like wooden or golden — the material plus -en. It can also hint at the feel of oak: strong, heavy, dark, not only “this was cut from an oak tree”. Though actually almost nobody needs oaken in daily talk; if you say oaken about a new kitchen, it will sound like a storybook on purpose.
橡木製的(書面、偏古;平常比較常直接說 oak)。別和「橡膠」搞混:這是橡樹的木頭。
原始詞典資料1 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。
oakenadj/ˈəʊk.ən/
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Made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness.
- Captain Jemmy, taking up three bottles one after another and finding them all empty, ordered up three more, and drew his chair up to the hearth, where he sat kicking the oaken logs viciously with his long legs.
- His knuckles are tattooed, his hands the oaken tools of the boxer he still is, now as a coach.
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。