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    A Sassenach is an English person — but only in the mouth of a Scottish speaker. It can be a joke between friends, or it can show that the speaker is not pleased. It is not the normal, neutral word (that is “English,” or “an Englishman / Englishwoman”). You will hear it in stories about Scotland, and some Scottish people still use it. It was borrowed from Scottish Sasannach, which means “Saxon,” the old name for the English as seen from the side. Though actually, some speakers stretch it to mean anyone who is not Scottish, not only someone from England. Handle it with care: if you are not Scottish, using it about someone else can sound like you are playing with a word that is not yours.

    英格蘭人(蘇格蘭人的叫法,帶調侃或貶意)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Sasannach (“Saxon”).

原始詞典資料3 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。

sassenachnoun/ˈsæs.ə.næk/

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    derogatoryAn English person.

    • 'I distinctly heard the barman at that pub last night refer to us as Sassenachs.' 'Well, why not?' said Frank equably. 'It only means "Englishman", after all, or at worst, outsider and we're all of that.' 'I know what it means. It was the tone I objected to.'
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    derogatoryA Lowland Scot.

    • But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro.

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