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The RAF is Britain's air force — the part of the military that flies planes. The letters stand for Royal Air Force. In British English you almost always say the RAF, with the, the way you say the army. It stays in capital letters because it is a name. Though actually, RAF can also be a short form of the name Rafael, but that is a different word that only looks the same; this entry is the British air force. Taiwan students meet it in Second World War stories and in talk about the UK. It is not the United States air force (that is the ).
英國皇家空軍(口語也直接說 RAF;英文要加 the:the RAF)
組成Initialism of Royal Air Force. (Wiktionary's "clipping of Rafael" belongs to the name, not this sense.)
原始詞典資料6 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。
RAFname
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The German Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).
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hobbieslifestylemotor-racingAbbreviation of Russian Automobile Federation.
Rafname
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A diminutive of the male given name Rafael.
- The Nets players sometimes jokingly call Derrick Coleman, of all things, Joe Jackson. Joe Jackson? Coleman says it comes courtesy of forward Rafael Addison. […] "It's just something Raf started," Coleman said of the nickname.
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。