喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/dʒəˈræf/ · /dʒəˈrɑːf/長頸鹿

    A tall African animal with a very long neck, very long legs, and dark spots on its yellow-brown fur. It is the tallest animal alive, and it eats leaves from the tops of trees.

    示範例句 · Example

    At the zoo, Mei stood next to a giraffe and only came up to its knee.

    逐字在動物園，美站在一隻長頸鹿旁邊，而且只到牠的膝蓋。

    giraffe 就是長頸鹿：住在非洲、脖子和腿都很長、黃棕色毛上有深色斑點的動物，也是現存最高的動物。整隻動物可以想成是「被往上拉長的」——脖子長、腿長、連舌頭都長，所以牠吃得到別的動物碰不到的樹頂葉子。它是可數名詞：一隻是 a giraffe，很多隻是 giraffes。要注意中文「長頸鹿」裡有個「鹿」，但英文的 deer（鹿）是另一種比較小、頭上長角的動物，兩個字不通用。

    常見搭配

    • a giraffe's long neck

      長頸鹿的長脖子

      the very long neck that a giraffe has

      A giraffe's long neck lets it eat where nothing else can.

    • dark spots

      深色斑點

      the dark marks on a giraffe's yellow-brown fur

      The dark spots on a young giraffe are softer in colour.

    • reach the treetops

      構得到樹頂

      to be tall enough to get to the leaves at the top of trees

      Only a giraffe is tall enough to reach the treetops here.

    • as tall as a giraffe

      跟長頸鹿一樣高

      used to say that something is very tall

      The new slide at the park is almost as tall as a giraffe.

    • see giraffes in the wild

      在野外看到長頸鹿

      to see giraffes living freely, not in a zoo

      Aisha's dream is to see giraffes in the wild one day.

core核心畫面

Picture an animal built upwards: a very long neck and very long legs lifting its head above everything else on the African plain, its yellow-brown coat broken into dark patches, reaching leaves that no other animal on the ground can reach.

可以想成一隻整個往上長的動物：極長的脖子加上極長的腿，把頭抬到非洲草原上所有東西的上方；黃褐色的皮上分布著深色的斑塊。牠是現存最高的動物，吃的是樹頂的葉子——那些站在地上的其他動物怎麼伸都碰不到的高度。這個字只有這一個意思，畫面就落在那隻正在吃樹梢的長脖子動物身上。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 giraffes

原始詞典資料4 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。

giraffenoun/dʒɪˈɹɑːf/

  • 1

    A ruminant in the genus Giraffa of the African savannah with long legs, a highly elongated neck, yellow fur patterned with dark spots typically in the form of a network, and two or more horn-like projections called ossicones; the tallest living animal.

    • A group of giraffes is called a tower.
  • 2

    A giraffe unicycle.

  • 3

    slangA laugh.

    • Are you having a giraffe?!
  • 4

    A very tall individual.

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