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A soft, round fruit with smooth skin (purple, red, or yellow) and a hard stone inside — sweet and a little tart. Dried plums are called prunes. , a 'plum' job, role, or assignment is a really good one that people want, because it's easy, pays well, or is high-status — like 'she landed a plum position at the company.'
李子（水果）；令人稱羨的好差事（a plum job）
原始詞典資料30 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。
Plumname
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A surname.
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A place name:
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A place name:
plumnoun詞源 1/plʌm/
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
另外 12 個記錄的用法
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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The fruit and its tree.
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archaicThe fruit and its tree.
- “Bright boy! here’s a plum for you,” and Polly threw a plump raisin into his mouth.
- Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a Christmas pie; he put in his thumb, and he took out a plum, and said, “What a good boy am I!”
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archaicExtended senses.
- He […] acquired a plentiful fortune, tho', to his infinite regret, he died before it amounted to a Plum […].
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Extended senses.
- The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.
- Such chances as this do not fall to a man's lot twice; but Edmond Werdet relates a story very similar indeed, and where also the "plums" fell into the lap of a London dealer.
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Extended senses.
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vulgarslangExtended senses.
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derogatoryExtended senses.
plumadj詞源 1/plʌm/
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Of a dark bluish-red colour.
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Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
- She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.
- It is obviously a "plum" job, one distinction being that its motormen are granted an allowance of about 6s. [six shillings] towards the cost of Wagons-Lits food in the crew quarters of the train, [...]. Additionally, by the way, each man is allowed a quarter of a bottle of wine "on the house" per trip!
plumadj詞源 2/plʌm/
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Plumb.
plumadv詞源 2/plʌm/
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Completely; utterly.
- You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.
plumverb詞源 2/plʌm/
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businessminingTo plumb.
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。