喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈpeŋɡwɪn/企鵝

    a large black and white sea bird that lives in the very cold south of the world. It cannot fly, but it uses its wings to swim.

    penguin 指的是住在南極那種很冷的海邊、黑白配色的大型海鳥。英文把牠算成 bird（鳥），可是牠不會飛，所以講 penguin 的時候通常不會用 fly 這個動詞。牠的翅膀可以想成「一對槳」——別的鳥用翅膀在空中飛，企鵝是用翅膀在水裡划，所以 penguin 的各種樣子（站在冰上、一群擠在一起、跳進水裡抓魚）就像都從這個畫面長出來。

    示範例句 · Example

    Our teacher told us that a penguin is a bird that swims instead of flying.

    中文翻譯我們的老師告訴我們，企鵝是一種游泳而不是飛的鳥。

    常見搭配

    • emperor penguin

      皇帝企鵝

      the biggest kind of penguin

      Emperor penguins raise their chicks through the long, cold winter.

    • king penguin

      國王企鵝

      a large kind of penguin with orange marks on its neck

      The king penguins on the island are smaller than emperor penguins.

    • a colony of penguins

      一大群聚居的企鵝

      a large group of penguins living together in one place

      A colony of penguins lives on the rocks near the sea.

    • a penguin chick

      企鵝寶寶

      a baby penguin

      The penguin chick has soft grey feathers and follows its parents everywhere.

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

Origin uncertain (16th century); possibly Welsh pen 'head' + gwyn 'white', or Latin pinguis 'fat'.

來源不明；有一說來自威爾斯文 pen「頭」加 gwyn「白」。

Wiktionary

A large black-and-white sea bird from the far cold south, standing upright like a small person in a dinner jacket. Its wings never lift it into the air — under water they work like flippers, so it flies through the sea instead of the sky.

可以想成一隻站得直挺挺的黑白海鳥，住在世界最南邊的冰天雪地裡，遠看像穿著小禮服的人。牠的翅膀飛不起來，但一下水就成了槳——與其說牠不會飛，不如說牠是在海裡飛。

penguins

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Penguinname

  • 1

    A town in Central Coast Council, northern Tasmania, Australia.

penguinnoun/ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn/

  • 1

    Any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.

    • Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins (white-head in Welch) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves […]
  • 2

    obsoletehistoricalAn auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.

    • This last species of penguin, or auk, seems to be the same with the alca cirrhata of Dr. Pallis, Spicileg. Zool. Fasc. v. p. 7. tab. i. & v. fig. 1–3. F.
    • More than a hundred years ago, for example, was seen the last of the great wingless penguins or auks, which early writers quaintly called " wobble-birds."
  • 3

    slangA nun.

    • Jake (John Belushi): What are we doing here? Elwood (Dan Aykroyd): You promised you'd visit the penguin the day you got out. Jake: Yeah. So, I lied to her. Elwood:You can't lie to a nun. We gotta go in and visit the penguin.
  • 4

    artshobbiesjugglingA type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.

  • 5

    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.

    • Although it is a permanent R.A.F. station (pre-war, that is), we meander about, even in the Mess, in battle dress and flying boots, sweaters, etc., much to the disgust of some of the more dignified 'penguins' […]
    • Notwithstanding his elevated status as the wing’s Senior Intelligence Officer, Monty, too, was a “penguin,” equal in that respect to an armament assistant, airframe mechanic, pigeon loftsman or any of the seventy-odd ground trades listed by the Royal Canadian Air Force at the war’s end.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。