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Picture the dried brown leaf that goes inside a cigarette or a pipe. The word names that material first; the tall broad-leaved plant it is cut from takes the same name, the way tea names both the leaf in your cup and the bush in the field.
可以想成：捲在香菸或裝在菸斗裡的那種曬乾的褐色葉子。這個字先指那個材料，再回頭指長出這種葉子的高大寬葉植物——就像中…更多收起
可以想成：捲在香菸或裝在菸斗裡的那種曬乾的褐色葉子。這個字先指那個材料，再回頭指長出這種葉子的高大寬葉植物——就像中文的「茶」既是杯子裡的葉子，也是山上那叢樹。原始詞典資料7 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。
Tobacconame
- 1
Two rivers in Michigan, United States.
- 2
A township in Gladwin County, Michigan, probably named after one of the rivers.
tobacconoun/təˈbækəʊ/
- 1
Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
- 2
Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
- Tobacco and the plant valerian are also considered to be anaphrodisiac in their effects, diminishing sexual inclination.
- Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.
- 3
A variety of tobacco.
- Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.
tobaccoverb/təˈbækəʊ/
- 1
To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
- 2
To treat with tobacco.
- The most satisfactory method of tobaccoing houses is that of stitching the leaves on to a piece of cloth like a strip of matting, which is then laid on the floor. Powdered tobacco should be introduced into rat holes, which can then be firmly closed up with bricks and mortar. Experiments carried out in the City of Hyderabad seem to have been very satisfactory.
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。