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    Stripy means having stripes — lines of one colour running across something of another colour. A stripy shirt, a stripy cat, a stripy . It means exactly the same thing as striped, and here is the useful difference: striped is the neutral, everywhere word, and stripy is the warmer, more casual, slightly one. You would write "a striped tie" on a school uniform list, but you would say "look at his silly stripy socks" to a friend. Stripy is much more common in British English; Americans mostly say striped, and some Americans spell the casual form stripey with an e. Because it feels friendly, stripy turns up a lot in children's books, in talk about , sweets, umbrellas, and animals like , tigers and bees. It only describes things, so it goes in front of a noun or after be: the towel is stripy.

    有條紋的、條紋狀的(口語、可愛的說法)。跟 striped 意思一樣,但 striped 是中性書面說法,stripy 比較口語、帶點童趣,英式英文用得多。

    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stripe (a band of colour) + -y (an ending that turns a thing into a describing word: dirt → dirty, salt → salty).

同家族的字

  • stripethe noun it is built from
  • stripedthe same stripe, with a different ending; the plainer twin of stripy
  • pinstripepin + stripe — the very thin stripes on a business suit

原始詞典資料1 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。

stripyadj/ˈstɹaɪp.i/

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    Having stripes; striped.

    • He looked like a baby zebra, curled up in his stripy T-shirt.
    • The agent swayed toward Max and the tiger, one hand clamped over his stomach and a grimace pasted across his features.[…]Max raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? You did notice that our stripy friend is trying to snack on me?"

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