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A topee is a light, hard hat with a wide brim, worn to keep the sun off your head and the back of your neck in very hot countries. It is usually white or pale brown, and made of something light like dried pith or cork, so it is stiff but not heavy. You also see it spelled 'topi', and most people today would call it a 'pith helmet' instead. The word feels old. It belongs to pictures from a hundred years ago: British soldiers and officials in India and Africa, explorers, big-game hunters, old adventure films. Almost nobody wears one now, and almost nobody says the word in normal talk. When it does come up today, it often carries a feeling of the colonial past with it — sometimes as a joke about someone who looks like an old-fashioned explorer. So this is a word to understand when you read it, not a word you will need to say.
遮陽盔、太陽帽(就是探險家戴的那種白色硬盔,英文常說 pith helmet)
組成Comes into English from Hindi टोपी (ṭopī) and Urdu ٹوپی (ṭōpī), which simply mean 'hat'. British people in India borrowed the ordinary local word for 'hat' and used it in English for this one particular kind of sun hat.
原始詞典資料1 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。
topeenoun/ˈtəʊ.pi/
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A pith helmet.
- I lent my topee to Camarião, who looked extremely odd in it.
- There were a few people on the platform, among them two Indian police, and a station oflicial with a white topee.
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。