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A Scandinavian is a person from that northern European area. This sense includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and usually Finland and Iceland too. As with , that is a wide English use.
A ScandinavianScandinavianis a person from that northern European area是指來自北歐那一帶的人。This sense includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and usually Finland and Iceland too這個用法包括挪威、瑞典、丹麥,通常也算上芬蘭和冰島。As with Scandinavia就跟Scandinavia這個字一樣that is a wide English use,這是英文裡比較寬鬆的用法。
Some people, and many people who live there, keep Scandinavian for Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, and say Nordic for the bigger family.
Some people, and many people who live there有些人,尤其是住在當地的很多人keep Scandinavian for Norway, Sweden, and Denmark會把Scandinavian留給挪威、瑞典和丹麥and say Nordic for the bigger family,範圍更大的那個家族則叫Nordic。
The word is also an adjective: Scandinavian design, a Scandinavian winter.
The word is also an adjective這個字也可以當形容詞:Scandinavian designScandinavian design(北歐設計)a Scandinavian wintera Scandinavian winter(北歐式的冬天)。
The languages of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark sit close; Finnish is from a different family, which is one reason Finland sits in this word. Icelandic is related to those Scandinavian languages, but Iceland is more often named among the Nordic countries.
The languages of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark sit close挪威、瑞典和丹麥的語言彼此很接近Finnish is from a different family;芬蘭語則屬於不同的語系which is one reason Finland sits awkwardly in this word,這也是芬蘭放在這個字裡有點尷尬的原因之一。Icelandic is related to those Scandinavian languagesIcelandic(冰島語)跟這些Scandinavian語言算是親戚but Iceland is more often named among the Nordic countries,但Iceland比較常被算進Nordic countries(北歐國家)裡。
You can say "the Scandinavians" for the people as a group.
for the people as a group講到這群人整體時,You can say可以說“the Scandinavians”"the Scandinavians"。
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。
Scandinaviannoun/ˌskændɪˈneɪvi.ən/
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Someone from Scandinavia.
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board-gameschessgamesThe Scandinavian Defence.
Scandinavianadj/ˌskændɪˈneɪvi.ən/
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Of or relating to Scandinavia.
- I thought I could organize freedom / How Scandinavian of me
- The Vikings: For a three hundred year period beginning in 800 AD, a group of Scandinavian kinksters based in Sweden roamed the ocean, from time to time making land and slaughtering whatever local people they found.
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Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.
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。