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The Provos are the Provisional IRA — the Irish Republican Army group that became the main armed republican movement in Northern Ireland after a split in 1969. “Provos” is an informal nickname, used a lot in British and Irish news and talk. It always means that group, not “provisional” people in general, and not just any IRA. Write it with a capital P. It is not a polite textbook name; it is the short, familiar label people used for that organisation, including years of violence and, later, .
臨時IRA(愛爾蘭共和軍臨時派的俗稱)
組成Informal short form of Provisionals, i.e. the Provisional IRA. The -s marks the group as a plural nickname, like calling a team “the Blues.”
同家族的字
- provisionalshort for the Provisional IRA; Provos is the informal nickname
原始詞典資料2 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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。