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A passel is a group of people or things — a passel of kids, a passel of problems. It means “quite a few,” not a careful number. The word is informal and a bit old-fashioned, and it sounds like American country talk more than school English. You would not put it in a careful essay. Though actually, it is the same word as parcel, said in a dialect where the r-sound before the next consonant got swallowed, so parcel came out passel. The meaning slid from “a wrapped bundle” to “a bunch.”
一大群、一堆（美式口語，偏老派）
組成A spoken variant of parcel: the r-sound dropped before the next consonant.
同家族的字
- parcelpassel is parcel with the r-sound lost in dialect speech
原始詞典資料2 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。
passelnoun/ˈpæsl/
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informalAn indeterminately large quantity or group.
- That child will like as not come here with a passel o' things borrowed from the rest o' the family. She'll have Hannah's shoes and John's undershirts and Mark's socks most likely.
- A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials.
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A group of opossums or possums.
- Marking each baby with a different color is another way for rehabbers to tell who's who in a passel of possums.
- I could tell by the look on his face that he was mighty proud of his passel of possums.
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。