喜樂美語
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    /aʊl/

    A bird with a wide flat face and very large eyes that both look forward. It has soft wings that make almost no sound, and it sleeps in the day and hunts small animals at night.

    貓頭鷹

    複數 owls

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You can picture a bird built for the dark: a wide flat face like a dish, two huge eyes set side by side at the front instead of on the sides, and wings whose edges are so soft that it comes down on a mouse without a sound. It sits still through the day and does its hunting after the light goes.

可以想成一隻專為黑夜長出來的鳥：臉又寬又平，像一個小碟子把聲音收進來；兩隻大眼睛不是長在頭的兩側，而是並排朝前，所以…更多收起可以想成一隻專為黑夜長出來的鳥：臉又寬又平，像一個小碟子把聲音收進來；兩隻大眼睛不是長在頭的兩側，而是並排朝前，所以牠看你的時候是整顆頭轉過來。翅膀邊緣柔軟到飛行幾乎不出聲，等於是無聲地落在獵物上面。白天牠幾乎不動，天黑了才開始工作。

原始詞典資料9 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。

Owlnoun

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    slangball-gamesgameshobbiesA player or fan of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

owlnoun/aʊ(ə)l/

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    Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, families Strigidae and Tytonidae, that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.

    • A group of owls is called a parliament.
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    A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active.

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    An owl pigeon.

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    governmentpoliticsA politician with moderate views that are neither hawkish nor dovish.

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    Any of various nymphalid butterflies, especially in the genus Caligo, having large eyespots on the wings.

owlverb/aʊ(ə)l/

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    archaicTo smuggle contraband goods.

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。