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In Australia and New Zealand, some people call a young woman a sheila. It is slang, not a careful or formal word, and it is local: a teacher in Taiwan, Britain, or the United States would not use it this way in ordinary talk.
In Australia and New Zealand在澳洲和紐西蘭,some people有些人 call把 a young woman年輕女人 a sheila叫做sheila。It is slang它是俚語,not a careful or formal word不是一個講究或正式的字,and it is local而且是地方性的:a teacher一位老師 in Taiwan, Britain, or the United States在台灣、英國或美國 would not use it這樣用它 this way in ordinary talk在平常講話中不會這樣用。
It comes from the woman’s name Sheila, which was once very common, so the name turned into a word for “a girl” or “a young woman.” Though actually, it is heard more from men, and more from older speakers; some women do not like it, because it can sound like “some girl” rather than a person with a name.
It它 comes from源自 the woman's name一個女性名字 Sheila雪拉,which once was曾經 very common非常常見,so the name所以這個名字 turned into就變成了 a word for "a girl" or "a young woman."一個指「女孩」或「年輕女人」的字。Though actually不過其實,it它 is heard more比較常聽到 from men從男性口中,and more而且比較常 from older speakers從年紀較大的人口中;some women有些女性 do not like it不喜歡這個字,because因為 it can sound like聽起來可能像是"some girl"「某個女的」 rather than而不是 a person with a name一個有名字的人。
Outside those countries, Sheila is just a given name. Do not use sheila in class as a normal English word for “woman.”
Outside those countries在這些國家以外,Sheila雪拉 is just只是 a given name一個普通的名字。Do not use不要用 sheila這個字 in class在課堂上 as a normal English word當作正常英文字 for "woman."用來講「女人」。
組成From the woman’s name Sheila. A second origin on record is a borrowing from Arabic شَيْلَاء (šaylāʔ); that is another story, and this Australian sense is the name.
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。
Sheilaname詞源 1
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A female given name from Irish, popular in the UK from the 1920s to the 1950s; variant forms Shelagh, Sheelagh, Sheilagh, Sheela, Sile.
- Were English girls not good enough for him that he must needs come up and take away Sheila Mackenzie, and keep her there in the South.
- What lovely names for girls there are! / There's Stella like the Evening Star, / And Sylvia like a rustling tree, / And Lola like a melody, / And Flora like a flowery morn, / And Sheila like a field of corn,
sheilanoun詞源 1/ˈʃiːlə/
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slangA woman.
- ‘I didn’t like that sheila that tried to latch onto him, but.’
- He was a real gentleman and although he never asked any personal questions as to why ‘a couple of sheilas’ was hitch hiking to Perth, he said he was glad of the company.
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。