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Tit has two very different meanings, so context matters a lot. It's the name of a small, common garden bird — a 'blue tit' is a well-known little bird in Britain, also called a 'titmouse.' It also appears in the old phrase 'tit for tat,' meaning to do something bad to someone because they did something bad to you first — a fair trade of harm for harm. Separately — worth knowing so you're not caught off guard — 'tit' is also a rude slang word for a woman's breast, so some speakers avoid saying the bird's name loudly in certain situations, or use 'titmouse' instead to be clear.
山雀(一種小鳥);tit for tat=以牙還牙;(俚語,粗俗)胸部
同家族的字
- titmouseanother name for the same small bird
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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。
titnoun詞源 1/tɪt/
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vulgarslangA person's breast or nipple.
- I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.
- Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."
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vulgarslangAn animal's teat or udder.
- A large bowl of suckulent ^([sic]) raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat's tit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table.
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vulgarderogatoryslangAn idiot; a fool.
- Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!
- I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two.
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vulgarderogatoryslangA police officer; a "tithead".
titnoun詞源 2/tɪt/
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vulgararchaicslangA light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
titverb詞源 2/tɪt/
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vulgarobsoleteslangTo strike lightly, tap, pat.
- Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me—how is that?
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vulgarobsoleteslangTo taunt, to reproach.
- they would vpbraid me therewith calling me idle Drone; Titting and flouting at me, that I should offer to sit downe at boord with cleane hand.
titnoun詞源 3/tɪt/
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vulgarslangA chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
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vulgarslangAny of various other small passerine birds.
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vulgararchaicslangA small horse; a nag.
- […] he was reſolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more ſobriety.
- Bob trotted gently by the side of the carriage. “Not a bad looking tit,” said St. Leger, as they went along.
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vulgararchaicslangA young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
- "What sort of a feringee is this?" said a lively little tit—"eh?"
- But I don't mind; she's a pretty little tit, and Dick has taught her to call me uncle.
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vulgarslangA morsel; a bit.
- Now if you can shew so neat a foot, ( shewing her shoe ) —Parlez moi de ça : —I suppose I was not noble enough for this squire; he must have a bit a blood, a tit of quality — but I shall be a countess soon, and a mighty good sort of countess I shall make.
- Being drunk , he remembers not a tit of life before the drink came well home. It is not that he sees the past mistily; he does not see at all. He lives then only in as much of the present as the word of his master for the time being[…]
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。