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A partridge is a , brown bird with a short tail. People hunt it for sport and cook it for food, especially in the countryside in Europe. It lives on the ground more than in trees, and it is smaller and rounder than a , which has a long tail. English speakers who never see one still know the name from the Christmas song about a partridge in a tree — a slightly odd picture, because partridges are not really tree birds. In a city classroom it is mostly a story-and-song word; in food writing and hunting talk it is an ordinary bird name.
鷓鴣（聖誕歌裡「梨樹上的鷓鴣」；台灣較常見的近親是竹雞）
組成From Middle English partrich, partriche, from Old French perdriz, from Latin perdīx, from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”), probably from πέρδομαι (pérdomai, “to fart”). That “probably” is the scholars’ hedge.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Partridgename
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A surname.
- Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]
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A minor city in Reno County, Kansas, United States, named after the bird.
partridgenoun/ˈpɑːtɹɪd͡ʒ/
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biologynatural-sciencesornithologyAny bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.
- On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.
- ...and the loudest sound in the lonely fields was when, adventuring too near some late brood, the partridge sought to deceive by a plaintive cry and seeming helplessness, crossing before your very feet, till, when drawn to a sufficient distance, suddenly the air vibrated to the flutter of her active pinions.
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The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
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obsoletegovernmentmilitarypoliticsA type of cannon charge composed of several missiles fired all together, similar to langrage or case-shot. Also a large cannon that shoots stones.
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。