- 1nB2
/ruːts/
A 1976 book by the American writer Alex Haley, also made into a TV programme. It follows one African-American family for many years, starting with Kunta Kinte, a man taken from West Africa to the US as a slave.
《根》
核心畫面
A proper name, not an ordinary noun: the title of Alex Haley's 1976 book (later a TV series) that follows one African-American family across generations, back to Kunta Kinte, who was taken from West Africa to America as a slave. The title uses the everyday picture of a plant's roots — the part underground that a family, like a tree, grows up out of.
這是一個專有名稱,不是一般名詞:可以想成它就是那本書的封面名字——Alex Haley 1976 年的《根》,後來拍…更多收起
這是一個專有名稱,不是一般名詞:可以想成它就是那本書的封面名字——Alex Haley 1976 年的《根》,後來拍成電視劇,順著一個非裔美國家族一代一代往回追,一直追到被人從西非帶到美國當奴隸的 Kunta Kinte。書名借的是日常那個 root(樹根)的畫面:家族像一棵樹,地面上看得到的是現在的人,地底下那一截才是他從哪裡長出來的。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。
rootsnoun/ɹuːts/
- 1
Ancestry.
- I have both Irish and German roots.
- 2
Beginnings; origin.
- Jazz has its roots in blues.
- 3
Grown-out hair, often of a grey or natural colour.
- I just coloured my hair and already my roots are showing.
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。