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Tunny is an older British word for the fish we now nearly always call tuna. Same fish — the big sea fish that gets cut into steaks or packed in tins. The thing to know is that this word is . In Britain today you would order tuna, buy a tin of tuna, eat a tuna sandwich; 'tunny' turns up in older books, in fishing talk, and sometimes in the fuller form 'tunny fish', but a young person in London may never use it. Americans do not use it at all. So treat it as a word to recognise rather than a word to say. If you meet it in a novel or an old , just read it as 'tuna' and you have lost nothing. The plural can be 'tunny' or 'tunnies', which itself tells you how and old-fashioned the word is.
鮪魚(英國舊式說法,現在幾乎都講 tuna)。看得懂就好,不用拿來講。
組成From Middle French thon plus the English ending -y, going back through Old Occitan ton to Latin thunnus, and before that Ancient Greek thúnnos — the Greeks' name for the same fish.
同家族的字
- tunathe ordinary modern word, from the same Latin thunnus by a different route
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。
tunnynoun/ˈtʌni/
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datedSynonym of tuna.
- The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
- You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--
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。