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An orc is an imaginary creature from fantasy stories, movies, and games — usually shown as an ugly, strong, aggressive, human-like monster that fights in groups, often on the 'evil' side of the story. The idea became especially famous through 'The Lord of the Rings,' and now orcs appear in many other books, games, and films.
半獸人、獸人(奇幻生物)
原始詞典資料11 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。
orcnoun詞源 1/ɔɹk/
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archaicAny of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.
- The latter phenomenon is similar to the conceptual division seen in Ainu society between kimun-kamuy, the bear spirit of the mountains, and repun-kamuy, the orc or dolphin spirit of the sea.
orcnoun詞源 2/ɔɹk/
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fantasyhuman-sciencesmysticismA mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green.
- Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus.
- The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
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derogatoryslangA Russian soldier or gangster.
- Ukrainians themselves, including those on the right, preferred to call the events the 'Revolution of Dignity', depicted not in terms of ethnicity or class, but in simple civic black and white – a revolution of the people against Yanukovych's 'Mordor' and his 'Orcs'.
- And now we must watch the old world go up in flames, in the mad spectacle of Putin’s orcs descending upon Kyiv to execute his macabre plan.
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slurA Russian person.
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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。