- 1雉雞（台灣口語也常說山雞）
A pheasant is a fairly large wild bird with a long tail. The male is the one people picture: bright feathers and a sharp call. The female is plainer and brown, easier to miss in grass. In Britain and in many other places people keep or hunt pheasants, and the same word can mean the meat on the plate. You meet it in countryside talk, shooting talk, and on menus more than in city chat. People sometimes use it loosely for any long-tailed colourful bird; though actually several different birds get that label in casual speech. In Taiwan the bird you are most likely thinking of is a kind of pheasant too.
組成From Middle English fesaunt, from Old French fesan, from Latin phasianus, from Ancient Greek phasianós, “bird of the river Phasis,” from where people supposed the bird spread west. It replaced an old English name related to moorhen.
原始詞典資料2 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。
pheasantnoun/ˈfɛzənt/
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A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.
- The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.
- Or sometimes, passing too near a sequestered copse, the shy tenants were startled, and the superb plumage of the pheasant dashed aside the branches, and the stately bird soared up on rattling wing.
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The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
- Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock.
- Célestin Lainé sat on the edge of the bed, a tray on his lap, eating pheasant and roast vegetables with a red wine reduction.
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