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Someone who runs across a public place with no clothes on, usually as a joke, a dare, or a way to get attention. The classic scene is a sports match: a person jumps the fence, runs naked across the pitch while the crowd laughs, and security officers chase them off. That is what most people picture when they hear the word. The tone is important. "Streaker" is a light, half-amused word — newspapers use it, commentators use it, and it does not suggest a sex crime; it suggests silliness and showing off. That said, it is still against the law in most countries, and a streaker at a big match will normally be arrested and fined afterwards. The verb is "to streak" (he streaked across the field), the action is "streaking". The word became common in the 1970s, when streaking was a craze on American university campuses, and it still carries a slight flavour of that time. You are far more likely to read it than to say it.
裸奔者(在公共場合脫光衣服跑過去的人,多半是惡作劇或想引人注意);動詞是「裸奔」
組成streak (to move very fast, like a flash) + -er (the person who does it). The idea is speed first: a streaker is someone who goes past in a blur — the nakedness came into the word later, from the 1970s craze.
原始詞典資料2 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。
streakernoun/ˈstɹikɚ/
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One who runs naked through a public place as a prank.
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A dolphin of species Stenella coeruleoalba.
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。