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A shack is a small building that has not been built to last — thin wood, tin sheets, or whatever was near. People live in a shack when they are poor, or they keep tools in one at the back of a garden.
A shack is a small buildingshack是一種小建築物 that has not been built to last蓋得不耐用 thin wood, tin sheets, or whatever was near用薄木板、鐵皮，或隨便找得到的材料 People live in a shack when they are poor人窮的時候會住在shack裡 or they keep tools in one at the back of a garden或是在花園後面用一間shack放工具
It is not a proud word. A house is proper; a cabin can sound cute; a shack says cheap, rough, and easily knocked down.
It is not a proud word這不是一個聽起來體面的字 A house is proper房子（house）是正經的 a cabin can sound cute小屋（cabin）可以聽起來很可愛 a shack says cheap, rough, and easily knocked downshack講的則是便宜、粗糙、一推就倒
In news photos after storms, or in stories about hard lives, you will see shacks. Friends sometimes joke come over to my shack about a messy room, stretching it. Nobody uses it for a nice flat.
In news photos after storms在風災過後的新聞照片裡 or in stories about hard lives或講述艱苦生活的故事裡 you will see shacks你會看到shack Friends sometimes joke朋友之間有時候會開玩笑說 come over to my shack「come over to my shack」（來我這間破房子） about a messy room來指一個亂七八糟的房間 stretching it這是誇張的用法 Nobody uses it for a nice flat沒有人會用這個字形容一間漂亮的公寓
Though actually, you will also hear shack up, which is informal and means two people start living together; that verb has wandered away from the little building.
Though actually不過其實 you will also hear shack up你也會聽到shack up這個說法 which is informal and means two people start living together這是口語，意思是兩個人開始同居 that verb has wandered away from the little building這個動詞已經跟小房子這個意思沒什麼關係了
Where the noun came from, nobody is sure. Some scholars derive it from Mexican Spanish jacal, from xacalli, an adobe hut. Others point at , or think it was cut back from shackly. Those are probable stories, not a fact we can nail down.
Where the noun came from這個名詞的來源 nobody is sure沒有人能確定 Some scholars derive it from Mexican Spanish jacal有些學者認為它來自墨西哥西班牙文的jacal from Nahuatl xacalli而jacal又來自納瓦特語的xacalli an adobe hut意思是土坯小屋 Others point at ramshackle另一些人則指向ramshackle（搖搖欲墜的） or think it was cut back from shackly或認為它是從shackly這個字縮短來的 Those are probable stories這些都只是可能的說法 not a fact we can nail down不是能確定下來的事實
組成Origin unknown. Some scholars derive it from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (an adobe hut). Alternatively it may come from ramshackle, or have been cut back from shackly. Compare also some Traveller words for place or house. None of this is certain.
原始詞典資料17 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。
Shackname
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A surname.
shacknoun詞源 1/ʃæk/
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A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
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Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
- The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.
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slangThe room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
shackverb詞源 1/ʃæk/
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To live (in or with); to shack up.
shacknoun詞源 2/ʃæk/
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obsoleteGrain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
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obsoleteNuts which have fallen to the ground.
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obsoleteFreedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
- […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
- 1996, J M Neeson, Commoners http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
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obsoletedialectalA shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.
- All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
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fishinghobbieslifestyleBait that can be picked up at sea.
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slangA drink, especially an alcoholic one.
shackverb詞源 2/ʃæk/
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obsoleteTo shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
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obsoleteTo feed in stubble, or upon waste.
- They [turkeys] are then sold‥to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles.
- […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
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dialectalTo wander as a vagabond or tramp.
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To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
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slangTo drink, especially alcohol.
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。