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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。
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 Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。