核心畫面
You can hold pork as one picture: pig meat on the table. Not the animal walking around (that is a pig), but the meat once it has become food — a chop in the pan, slices in a bowl of . English keeps the animal and the meat apart this way (pig/pork, cow/beef), so pork almost always shows up where food is being cooked, sold, or eaten.
可以想成 pork 就停在一個畫面上:端上桌的豬肉。不是還在走動的那隻動物(那是 pig),而是已經變成食物的肉——…更多收起
可以想成 pork 就停在一個畫面上:端上桌的豬肉。不是還在走動的那隻動物(那是 pig),而是已經變成食物的肉——鍋裡的排骨、麵上的肉片。英文習慣把「活的動物」和「吃的肉」用不同的字分開(pig/pork、cow/beef),所以 pork 幾乎都出現在做菜、買賣、吃東西的場合。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。
porknoun詞源 1/pɔːk/
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The meat of a pig.
- The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
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derogatoryslanggovernmentpoliticsFunding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
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slangLaw enforcement; those who side with criminal prosecution.
porkverb詞源 1/pɔːk/
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vulgarslangTo have sex with (someone).
- Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
- You know, I can't remember just how I discovered doorknobs, but as a teenager I used to pork myself on a particular one — a nice, smooth round one — from time to time.
porknoun詞源 2/pɔːk/
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board-gameschessgamesA position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
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。