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Oberon is the king of the fairies in Shakespeare’s play A Night’s Dream, and the husband of , the fairy queen. In the play the two have quarrelled; their fight spills into the human world and makes the lovers’ night in the wood a mess, until they make peace. English speakers meet the name almost only in that play, in talk about it, or in later stories and operas that borrow the same fairy court. It is a proper name, not a job-word: you do not call just any fairy king “an oberon.” Older English had the form Auberon.
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組成Earlier Auberon, from Old French Alberon, a partial loan-translation of Middle High German Alberich, literally “elf-king / fairy-king”: alp + -rich, from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“ruler”).
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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。
Oberonname/ˈoʊbərɒn/
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A fictional character in medieval and Renaissance literature, the king of the fairies, appearing for example in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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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。