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In old Eastern sailor stories — the kind later written down in tales like Sindbad the Sailor — the roc is a bird so huge it can lift an elephant, or carry a man out of a valley of diamonds. It is a story-bird, not a real animal, the way a dragon is a story-beast. English usually it with a capital letter, Roc, as if it were a name. You will almost only meet it in those old adventure tales, or when someone is being colourful about a huge bird. Though actually, it has nothing to do with the English word rock, and nothing to do with stone.
大鵬、魯克（神話裡的巨鳥）
組成English took it from Spanish rocho / ruc, from Arabic rukh, from older Persian rux — the name from those stories, not from rock.
原始詞典資料14 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。
ROCname
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Initialism of Republic of China (all senses).
- Former U.S. Senator George McGovern said that during his one-week visit to the ROC he met many friendly, optimistic and energetic people, and called the Republic of China an "energetic" country. He said he hopes his visit will help to promote understanding between the ROC and liberals in the United States.
- This book suggests that the gradual increase of transactions and communications between the two Chinas since 1987 should contribute to the ‘normalization’ of relations between the two Chinas. Nevertheless, these transactions and communications are not expected to lead to the political reunification of the two Chinas in the foreseeable future due to four main obstacles: the PRC’s intention to localize and isolate the ROC internationally; the PRC’s refusal to exclude the use of military force against the ROC; the difference between the two Chinas’ living standards and political philosophies; and the Taiwan Independence Movement.
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Initialism of Republic of China (all senses).
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governmentpoliticsThe "Rest of Canada", i.e. Canada excluding the province of Quebec.
- [T]he old and tired purveyors of separatism in Québec continue to harp on what they contend Québec is not—essentially, “not the ROC”—in order to peddle their snake oil.
- If Quebeckers believe that voting PQ means putting a knife to Canada’s throat, they should think again. The ROC is fed up with these threats.
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historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe Royal Observer Corps, a former United Kingdom defence organization (1925 to 1992).
rocnoun詞源 1/ɹɒk/
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An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
- The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage. "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;
rocnoun詞源 2/ɹɒk/
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medicinesciencesRocuronium.
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。