喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈziːbrə/ · /ˈzebrə/斑馬

    A wild animal that looks like a horse and has black and white lines all over its body. Zebras live in Africa and usually move around in large groups.

    「zebra」就是斑馬：長得像馬，全身都是黑白相間的條紋，野生的斑馬住在非洲的草原上。英文講到 zebra，腦中第一個浮現的通常是那身條紋，所以英式英文才把馬路上黑白相間的行人穿越道叫做 zebra crossing。可以想成「一匹身上被畫滿黑白線條的馬」——horse 多半是人養的、可以騎，zebra 幾乎都在野外自己跑。

    示範例句 · Example

    We saw three zebras eating grass near the trees.

    中文翻譯我們看見三隻斑馬在樹旁邊吃草。

    常見搭配

    • a herd of zebras

      一群斑馬

      a group of zebras moving and feeding together

      A herd of zebras walked slowly across the dry grass.

    • black and white stripes

      黑白條紋

      the black and white lines on a zebra's body

      Every zebra has its own pattern of black and white stripes.

    • a baby zebra

      斑馬寶寶

      a very young zebra

      A baby zebra stayed close to its mother the whole morning.

    • a zebra crossing

      斑馬線（英式說法）

      a place with white lines where people can walk across a road (British English)

      Wait for the green light before you use the zebra crossing.

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

Via Italian and Portuguese, ultimately from Latin equiferus 'wild horse'.

經義大利文、葡萄牙文而來，最早源自拉丁文的「野馬」。

Wiktionary

A horse-shaped wild animal covered in bold black-and-white stripes, moving in herds across African .

非洲草原上一匹馬的體型，全身覆著一道一道黑白相間的條紋，成群站在一起時，那些條紋會彼此交錯、糊成一片，讓人一時看不出哪一匹是哪一匹。這個字的力量幾乎全在那個視覺印象上——馬的身體加上強烈的黑白線條。也因為條紋太好認，英文裡有些東西會借它的樣子來命名，像英式英語的 zebra crossing（斑馬線），就是路面上那一道道白線讓人想起牠。

zebras

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Zebranoun

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    radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Z.

zebranoun/ˈzɛb.ɹə/

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    Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.

    • A group of zebras can be called a dazzle.
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    slanghobbieslifestylesportsA referee.

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    slangmedicinesciencesAn unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment.

    • "It's a zebra! George. OK, I should explain. A zebra is..." "Medical slang for coming to an exotic diagnosis when a more simple explanation is more likely." "That's right. I was convinced that George, given his age and symptoms, had some kind of cardiac issue. It fit, it made sense. Because I was looking for the obvious when I should have been looking for the zebra! George is just having an allergic reaction to a combination of chemicals from all the stains and paints he's been using in the garage."
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    medicinesciencesSomeone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility spectrum disorder

    • EDS charities around the world use a zebra logo to promote the idea that sometimes it really is that ‘rare’ condition.
    • “I was told in medical school, ‘when you hear hoofbeats think horses, not zebras,’” she says. Many trainee doctors receive the same advice – when a patient presents with symptoms, “look for the common thing.” That’s why EDS patients commonly refer to themselves as zebras – and also use the fabulous collective noun “dazzle.” The name represents rarity and evokes the stripy stretch marks that are a common feature on EDS skin.
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    derogatoryslurslangA biracial person, specifically one born to a Sub-Saharan African person and a white person.

    • “People change countries for all kinds of reasons,” Ross tells me. “But at least one of them was that she had this light-skinned, mixed-race child who had already been called a zebra at school.”
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    informalA zebra cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata).

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    Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.

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    A zebra crossing.

    • On his way home he'd picked up two economy-sized bags of tortilla chips, and had dropped both when a twat in a Lexus honked him on a zebra . . .
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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    board-gameschessgamesA fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and two at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

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