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A big white bird with a very long neck, across a lake so smoothly that it looks like no effort at all. Under the water the feet are hard, but all you see on the surface is , easy forward movement — you can hold that picture of as what the word carries.
可以想成一隻脖子很長的大白鳥，在湖面上滑過去，滑得平順到好像完全沒在使力；水面下的腳掌其實划得很勤，但你看到的只有牠…更多收起
可以想成一隻脖子很長的大白鳥，在湖面上滑過去，滑得平順到好像完全沒在使力；水面下的腳掌其實划得很勤，但你看到的只有牠不慌不忙、輕輕往前的樣子。這個「表面上毫不費力地飄過去」的畫面，大概就是這個字最好抓的地方。原始詞典資料16 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。
Swannoun詞源 1
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someone connected with the Sydney Swans, as a fan, player, coach, etc.
Swanname詞源 1
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A surname transferred from the nickname.
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A local government area in Perth, Western Australia; in full, the City of Swan.
Swannoun詞源 2
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ball-gamesgameshobbiessomeone connected with Swansea City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach, etc.
- The Swans will doubtless recover, but they will head home this evening knowing that they didn't do themselves justice in a game that means so much to supporters.
swannoun詞源 1/swɒn/
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Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
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One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesThis bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
swanverb詞源 1/swɒn/
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To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
- He swans around that stinking office in his expensive clothes that are a little too tight for comfort, he swans around that stinking office without a care in the world.
- One of the few strokes of good luck Emma had had in recent days was the news that Tatiana Flint-Hamilton, her only real rival for top billing as 'most photographable girl' at today's event had decided to swan off to Sardinia instead, leaving the limelight entirely to Emma.
swanverb詞源 2/swɒn/
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dialectalTo declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
- "Well, I swan, man, I had a better opinion of you than that."
- ‘She slammed the door so hard I figured a window'd break […].’ ‘I swan,’ I said.
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。