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An informal word for a very young child, a toddler - you might hear 'a little tot' used about a small kid. In British English, it also means a small amount of a strong drink, like 'a tot of whisky.' As a verb, 'to tot up' (mostly British) means to add numbers together to get a total.
(口語)幼兒、小小孩;(英式,少量)一小杯烈酒;(動詞,英式)加總
原始詞典資料14 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。
totnoun詞源 1/tɒt/
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A small child.
- He learned to run when he was just a tot.
- When I was but a tiny tot, I knocked the neighbors cold / For I became to walk when I was scarcely one year old
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A small amount of liquor, (particularly) a small measure of rum.
- Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
- And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.
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A small cup, usually made of tin.
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obsoletedialectalA foolish fellow.
- Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.
totverb詞源 2/tɒt/
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To sum or total.
- There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.
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historicalTo mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.
- a totted debt
totnoun詞源 2/tɒt/
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A total, an addition of a long column of figures.
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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。