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Oxfam is a British charity. The name began as a short telegraph address for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, a group that started in Oxford during the Second World War to send help to people who were starving.
Oxfam is a British charity是一個英國的慈善機構 The name began as a short telegraph address for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, a group that started in Oxford during the Second World War to send help to people who were starving這個名字最初是Oxford Committee for Famine Relief(牛津饑荒救濟委員會)的電報簡稱,這個團體在第二次世界大戰期間於牛津成立,為挨餓的人送出援助
Today Oxfam works in many poorer countries: training in farming, school programmes, and medicine when there is a serious shortage.
Today Oxfam works in many poorer countries: training in farming, school programmes, and medicine when there is a serious shortage現在Oxfam在許多比較貧窮的國家工作:農業訓練、學校計畫、以及在嚴重短缺時提供醫療
In the UK it is also famous for its shops, which sell used clothes, books, and other second-hand goods to raise money. “I got this at Oxfam” often just means it came cheap from a charity shop.
In the UK it is also famous for its shops, which sell used clothes, books, and other second-hand goods to raise money.在英國,它也以自己的商店聞名,這些店賣二手衣服、書、和其他二手物品來籌款 "I got this at Oxfam" often just means it came cheap from a charity shop.「I got this at Oxfam」常常只是表示這東西是從慈善商店買的、很便宜
It is a proper name, so it takes a capital letter, and it is not a general word for any aid group. Though actually the shops are what many British people meet first, the organisation’s older job is famine relief and long-term help overseas.
It is a proper name, so it takes a capital letter, and it is not a general word for any aid group它是專有名詞,所以要大寫,也不是泛指任何救援團體的通用字 Though actually the shops are what many British people meet first, the organisation's older job is famine relief and long-term help overseas不過實際上,商店是很多英國人最先接觸到的部分,這個組織比較早的工作其實是饑荒救濟和海外的長期援助
組成Syllabic abbreviation of Oxford Committee for Famine Relief; originally the telegraphic address of the organisation.
同家族的字
- Oxfordthe Ox- comes from Oxford, where the group started
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。
Oxfamname/ˈɒksfæm/
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A United Kingdom-based charity focused on alleviating global poverty and operating a chain of charity shops.
- [E]xquisitely torn jeans adorned the 'Hard Times' cover of The Face, while the long macs and second-hand suits of the 'Oxfam brigade', with their doomy Joy Division rock and George Orwell haircuts, made a suitable fanfare for the advent of the dreaded 1984. In one sense Oxfam chic was a lament for the passing of the old working-class certainties […]
- In the town center of the village I live in, there is an Oxfam shop, a Salvation Army shop, a Heart Disease UK shop, and a Cancer Research shop. They sell the usual thrift store stuff of used clothes and books.
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。