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Roadkill is an animal that a car, truck, or has hit and killed on the road. People mostly use it as a mass word — “there was roadkill on the highway” — not “a roadkill”, though you will hear “a piece of roadkill”. It is a blunt everyday word, a bit grim, not a scientist’s word. Some people also use it, half as a joke, for meat from an animal found that way, or to say they feel completely : “I feel like roadkill.” The serious meaning is always the animal on the road.
路殺（被車撞死在路上的動物；台灣很常用這個詞）
組成From road + kill: killed on the road.
原始詞典資料4 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。
roadkillnoun/ˈɹəʊdˌkɪl/
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automotivetransportvehiclesThe killing of an animal by a road vehicle.
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automotivetransportvehiclesThe killing of an animal by a road vehicle.
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automotivetransportvehiclesThe animal or animalsThe killing of an animal by a road vehicle. so killed.
- The van was heading straight for her and travelling faster and faster by the second. Zoe had to do something or she would be roadkill.
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A helpless victim.
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。