- 1黑白斑的（馬常說花馬）
A piebald animal has large black and white areas on its body, like the colours of a magpie. You hear it most about horses, and sometimes about other animals. The white parts are not tiny spots; they are big, clear patches. Horse people may keep a second word, skewbald, for brown-and-white rather than black-and-white, though many speakers just say piebald for any big two-colour coat, and that is a little loose. It is a farm and horse word, a bit old; in easy talk people often say “black and white.” As a noun, a piebald can mean the animal itself. It has nothing to do with pies you eat, and nothing to do with being drunk (that is pie-eyed). Bald here is not “no hair on the head.”
組成pie here is the magpie (the black-and-white bird), not the food. bald here means having white patches, as on an animal’s face, not “no hair.”
原始詞典資料3 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。
piebaldadj/ˈpaɪ.bɔːld/
- 1
Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
- […] she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel.
- This figure was clad in tweeds of a piebald check, with a pink tie, a sharp collar and protuberant yellow boots.
- 2
Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
- And at the present day, the wanton introduction of scientific terms from the Greek and Latin, and of phrases from the French, threatens to render our tongue still more piebald, heterogeneous and unwieldy.
- Hence you will make the piebald Church more piebald than ever.
piebaldnoun/ˈpaɪ.bɔːld/
- 1
An animal with piebald coloration.
- Our neighbour's fancy was for piebald horses, and so strong was it that he wished not to have any one-coloured animals in his herd, despite the fact that he bred horses for sale and that piebalds were not so popular as horses of a more normal colouring.
- “She always performs really well,” she says, showing me TikToks of her lip-syncing next to Luna, an elderly, noble-looking piebald with mournful brown eyes.
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