喜樂美語

核心畫面

The word says what it is: thunder plus bird. Picture a huge bird high above a storm, wings so wide that beating them is what makes the thunder roll. Everything else with this name is borrowing that picture — something big, fast, and arriving with force.

這個字的畫面可以直接從字面拿：thunder（雷）加 bird（鳥）。想像一隻很大的鳥飛在暴風雨上方，翅膀寬到一拍動…更多收起這個字的畫面可以直接從字面拿：thunder（雷）加 bird（鳥）。想像一隻很大的鳥飛在暴風雨上方，翅膀寬到一拍動，雷聲就滾了出來。後面所有叫這個名字的東西，可以想成都是在借這個畫面：又大、又快、來的時候有聲勢。一台跑得快的車、一輛出事就出動的火車頭，取這個名字時要的都是同一種氣勢。

From the word’s history

The packet's Wiktionary entry gives the origin plainly: thunderbird is thunder + bird. It also records that the British railway use comes from the 1960s television series Thunderbirds, and traces that name back to the same word.

字源資料寫得很直接：thunderbird 就是 thunder 加 bird。同一份資料還說，英國鐵路那個用法來自 1960 年代的影集《Thunderbirds》，而那個劇名再往前追，也還是這個字。所以「命名」這條線是有記錄的，不是我們自己接上去的。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract supplied in this packet): thunderbird 'From thunder + bird'; Thunderbird 'The railway sense is derived from the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds ... ultimately from thunderbird.'

One branch

借雷鳥之名的東西

取名字的人要的不是那隻鳥，而是牠的氣勢：大、快、來的時候有份量。所以這一組每個成員都是專有名詞，第一個字母大寫。

noun · B2

A car made by Ford and sold in the United States. Thunderbirds became very popular with young people in the late 1950s because they were fast and fashionable, and they are remembered for their tail fins — the tall pointed shapes at the back. The short form Bird or T-Bird is common in speech.

雷鳥車

原始詞典資料6 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。

Thunderbirdnoun/ˈθʌndə(ɹ).bɜː(ɹ)d/

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    rail-transportrailwaystransportA locomotive stored at a strategic point on the network so as to be available to quickly rescue a failed train.

Thunderbirdname/ˈθʌndə(ɹ).bɜː(ɹ)d/

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    computingengineeringmathematicsMozilla Thunderbird.

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    automotivetransportvehiclesFord Thunderbird.

thunderbirdnoun/ˈθʌndə.bɜːd/

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    human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA mythological bird, often associated with stormy weather, especially in various indigenous North American mythologies.

    • A man there was, grim his expression, just like a Thunderbird his features were frightening.
    • The Thunderbird, one of the most powerful symbols of Indigenous American mythology, borrows heavily from eagle features.
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    The golden whistler, an Australian insectivorous songbird (Pachycephala pectoralis, formerly Pachycephala gutturalis), whose male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast.

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。