喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can start from the animal itself: a rat living close to people but not with them — in the drains, behind the wall, around the farm. It takes what it can, it is hard to trust, and when a building starts to go down, it is the first thing out. Almost every other use of rat borrows one of those pictures.

可以先抓住那隻動物本身：老鼠住在人的旁邊，卻不站在人這一邊——在水溝裡、牆後面、穀倉邊上。牠靠佔便宜過活，你沒辦法信…更多收起可以先抓住那隻動物本身：老鼠住在人的旁邊，卻不站在人這一邊——在水溝裡、牆後面、穀倉邊上。牠靠佔便宜過活，你沒辦法信任牠，而且船一開始沉、房子一開始垮，第一個溜走的就是牠。英文裡 rat 的其他用法，幾乎都是從這隻動物身上借一個畫面過來：不忠、狼狽、以及一有麻煩就跑。

原始詞典資料29 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。

RATverb

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    computingengineeringmathematicsTo hack someone with a remote-access Trojan.

Ratname

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    The first of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

ratnoun詞源 1/ɹæt/

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    Any of the numerous members of several rodent families that usually have short limbs, a pointy snout, a long, hairless tail, and a body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.

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    biologynatural-scienceszoologyA medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.

    • Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
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    informalA person who is known for betrayal.

    • Near-synonyms: rouge, scoundrel, snake; see also Thesaurus:villain
    • rat bastard
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    informalAn informant or snitch.

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    informalA scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.

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    slangA person who routinely spends time at a particular location.

    • Our teenager has become a mall rat.
    • He loved hockey and was a devoted rink rat.
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    A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.

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    A roll of material used to puff out the hair, which is turned over it.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
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    vulgarslangVagina, vulva.

    • Get your rat out.
    • I don't need no dating app to tell me if I look like crap / To tell me if I'm thin or fat, to tell me should I shave my rat / I don't need no radio, no MTV, no BBC / I just need a bubble bath to set me on a higher path

ratverb詞源 1/ɹæt/

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    To hunt or kill rats.

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    To betray a political party, cause or principle; to betray someone, to desert a person or thing.

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    informalTo work as a scab, going against trade union policies.

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    To backcomb (hair).

    • In 1962, the higher a girl's hair was ratted the more available she was, it was simply understood.
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    To inform on someone; to betray someone to the police or authorities.

    • He ratted on his coworker.
    • He is going to rat us out!

ratnoun詞源 2/ɹæt/

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    regionalA scratch or a score.

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    regionalnauticaltransportA place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.

ratverb詞源 2/ɹæt/

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    regionalTo scratch or score.

    • He ratted a vertical line on his face with a pocket knife.
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    obsoleterareregionalTo tear, rip, rend.

    • Ratted to shreds.
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    Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths.

    • “But, rat me, sir,” cried Foster in bewilderment, “tis too generous—'pon honour it is. I can't consent to it. No, rat me, I can't.”

ratnoun詞源 3/ɹæt/

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    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA ration.

    • With regards to the testing of his product, the initial blood analysis had come back confirming huge, distinctive nutritional superiority for Stewart's military ration pack. Given that the policy of the British Army is to be fully ready for war at the drop of a hat, he was sitting on the potential of supplying new rats for the entire army […]

ratverb詞源 4/ɹæt/

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    computingengineeringmathematicsTo hack someone with a remote-access Trojan.

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。