核心畫面
A small pale brown nut in a thin, shell that grows under the ground — cheap, everywhere, sold by the bag and eaten a handful at a time. That very smallness and cheapness is what the second sense borrows.
可以想成一顆躲在薄薄脆殼裡的小小淡褐色果仁,長在土底下,一抓就是一把,便宜到隨處都買得到。正因為它又小又不值錢,英文…更多收起
可以想成一顆躲在薄薄脆殼裡的小小淡褐色果仁,長在土底下,一抓就是一把,便宜到隨處都買得到。正因為它又小又不值錢,英文才會拿它來形容「少得可憐」的錢。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。
Peanutname
- 1
A given name for a pet animal.
peanutnoun/ˈpiːnʌt/
- 1
A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
- He always liked eating peanuts along with tea before biscuits came into his life.
- 2
Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
- 3
See peanuts (“very small amount”).
peanutverb/ˈpiːnʌt/
- 1
To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.
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。