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/ˈreɪnkoʊt/ · /ˈreɪnkəʊt/
A coat that you wear to keep rain off your body.
雨衣
複數 raincoats
核心畫面
You can picture a coat whose whole job is to be a roof you wear: the water runs down the outside and you stay dry underneath. The word says exactly that — rain plus coat.
可以想成一件穿在身上的小屋頂:水順著外層流下去,裡面的人保持乾爽。這個字就是照字面組起來的——rain(雨)加 co…更多收起
可以想成一件穿在身上的小屋頂:水順著外層流下去,裡面的人保持乾爽。這個字就是照字面組起來的——rain(雨)加 coat(外套)。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。
raincoatnoun/ˈɹeɪnkoʊt/
- 1
A waterproof coat to be worn in the rain; (loosely) any coat or jacket with this purpose.
- After standing around in talk for a while, during which time Doris arrived with my hat and raincoat (left with her at the site) we made our way some two hundred strong, up the gracious stone stairway to the Hall of Christ Church, loaned by that College for the celebrationary lunch.
- Speaking to a crowd of demonstrators, some of whom dressed in raincoats while others wore keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly war on Gaza, one demonstrator said: “Any president that has come to power has also let workers down.”
- 2
slangA condom.
- Moe said he'll go first, I said I'll take next / Here, take this raincoat and practice safe sex!
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。