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In British informal English, tat means cheap, low-quality items that look tacky or aren't worth much - like sold at a tourist shop. It's also sometimes used as short, casual slang for 'tattoo'. As a verb, 'to tat' refers to an old kind of handmade lace-making craft, called tatting.
(英式口語)廉價俗氣的東西;(俚語)刺青(tattoo的簡稱)
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。
Tatnoun/tɑːt/
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A member of an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia.
Tatname/tɑːt/
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A southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people.
tatnoun詞源 1/tæt/
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Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
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Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
- tourist tat
- And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever."
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Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
tatverb詞源 2/tæt/
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To make (something by) tatting.
tatnoun詞源 3/tæt/
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archaicA pony.
- And so each morning before daybreak I am up, and having dispatched my luggage on the backs of coolies after much noise and bustle, without which no natives can work, I mount my tat as the sun begins to touch the higher hills, and start on my morning ride of twelve miles.
tatnoun詞源 4/tæt/
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slangA tattoo.
- Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tats, right away I want it now.
- I'm diplomatic playing pen and pad. Rat-a-tat, you're a scaredy-catcause I have a tat put you up like that. You can't stand that cause you've got to scat.
tatverb詞源 4/tæt/
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slangTo apply a tattoo.
- 2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music Write on me / Love the way you tat me up
tatnoun詞源 7/tæt/
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Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.
- The article seems an attempt at tit-for-tat; but there is too little tat, even in Bedouins, to provoke such a maze of tit as is found in “'Bedouins' and Nomads.”
- [...] insecurity, anger engender the excessive retaliation of two tits for a tat that leads not to damping-down but to [escalation].
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。