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Picture a small garden bird with a plain brown back and one loud patch of orange-red across its chest. That patch is what the name is pointing at — it is the reason two birds on two different continents, different in size, both end up being called a robin.

可以想成:一隻背部樸素、胸前卻有一大片橘紅的小鳥。這個名字認的既不是體型也不是叫聲,而是胸口那塊顏色——所以住在歐洲更多收起可以想成:一隻背部樸素、胸前卻有一大片橘紅的小鳥。這個名字認的既不是體型也不是叫聲,而是胸口那塊顏色——所以住在歐洲和住在北美、大小明顯不同的兩種鳥,英文都叫 robin。

原始詞典資料8 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。

Robinname/ˈɹɒbɪn/

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    A unisex given name.

    • They ſay hee is already in the Forreſt of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there liue like the old Robin Hood of England
    • This waly boy will be nae coof: /I think we'll call him Robin./ Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin', rantin', rovin', /Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin' Robin.
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    A unisex given name.

    • "We'll name her Robin," her mother said, and it was as though at her words something of that spring and the bird's song and his gay and friendly and impudent spirit entered into the child.
    • In March 1953, a month after Jeb was born, the Bush family received the devastating news that Robin had leukemia. A local doctor told the Bushes that doctors had never seen a white blood cell count that high and there was nothing they could do for her.
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    A surname originating as a patronymic.

Robinnoun/ˈɹɒbɪn/

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    ball-gamesgameshobbiesSomeone connected with any number of sports teams known as the Robins, as a fan, player, coach, etc.

robinnoun詞源 1/ˈɹɒ.bɪn/

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    Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.

    • As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
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    Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.

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    historicalA trimming in front of a dress.

robinnoun詞源 2

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    chemistrynatural-sciencesorganic-chemistryA toxalbumin obtained from the locust tree.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。