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/ˈtaɪɡər/ · /ˈtaɪɡə/
A large wild animal of the cat family, with orange fur and black stripes.
老虎
複數 tigers
核心畫面
Picture the big striped cat of the forest: orange coat, black stripes, the largest cat alive. It hunts alone and moves almost without sound, taking one animal down in a single rush rather than chasing in a pack. That quiet, heavy power is most of what English carries in the word.
可以想成 tiger 就是森林裡那隻有條紋的大貓：橘色的毛、黑色的斑紋，體型在所有貓科動物裡最大。牠獨來獨往，腳步幾…更多收起
可以想成 tiger 就是森林裡那隻有條紋的大貓：橘色的毛、黑色的斑紋，體型在所有貓科動物裡最大。牠獨來獨往，腳步幾乎沒有聲音，靠的是一次撲倒，而不是成群追捕。那種安靜又沉重的力量，大概就是英文 tiger 給人的整個感覺。原始詞典資料23 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。
Tigername
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The third of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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A town in Georgia.
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An unincorporated community in Washington.
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A popular given name for a pet.
Tigernoun
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesSomeone connected with Hull City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
tigernoun詞源 1/ˈtaɪɡə/
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Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
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Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- Coordinate term: tigress
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
- What you mean is that no scientist has captured one and been able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it exists, which is probably very good news for the tiger.
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obsoleteOther animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
- Similar is the test among the Moxos of Peru. One of their totems is the tiger; and a candidate for the rank of medicine-man must prove his kinship to the tiger by being bitten by that animal and surviving the bite.
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesA representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger. The ordinary tiger has no stripes, has a horn protruding from its nose, has tusks like a boar and a tufted mane, and has a lion's tail instead of a tiger's.
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A leopard.
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
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A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.
- Then came the 2008 credit turmoil and ensuing economic slump, which not only belittled the huge economic and social gains of the various Baltic and Celtic Tigers, as well as of several former communist nations of Central Europe.
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obsoleteA servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
- We arranged that I should come here alone in the London coach; and that he, leaving his tiger and cab behind him, should come on , and arrive here as soon as possible this afternoon
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
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slangA person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- Don't […] Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
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A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- As for that heinous tiger, Tamora, No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds, No mournful bell shall ring her burial; But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey.
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A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
tigernoun詞源 2
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A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- He spoke with a very strong Scotch accent, and is by no means a graceful orator, but he produced througout a most favourable impression upon all his hearers, and especially upon the students, one of whom shouted as the speaker closed, 'Long Live PRESIDENT M'COSH!' and then proposed three cheers, which were given with a will, followed by the usual tiger and ' rocket.'
- . . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.
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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。