- 1羽毛球
A shuttlecock is the small, light thing you hit in . One end is a round cork or plastic base; the other end is a skirt of real feathers, or a plastic copy of feathers. You hit it with a so that it flies over the net.
A shuttlecockshuttlecock（羽毛球） is the small, light thing就是那個小小的、輕輕的東西 you hit in badminton你在打羽毛球時打的 One end一端 is a round cork or plastic base是圓圓的軟木塞或塑膠底座 the other end另一端 is a skirt of real feathers是一圈真的羽毛 or a plastic copy of feathers或是塑膠做的仿羽毛 You hit it with a racket你用球拍打它 so that it flies over the net讓它飛過球網
Because it is so light, it slows down quickly in the air and a small wind can blow it off course — that is why outdoor is hard.
Because it is so light因為它太輕了 it slows down quickly in the air它在空中會很快減速 and a small wind can blow it off course一點小風就能把它吹偏 that is why outdoor badminton is hard這就是為什麼戶外打羽毛球很難的原因
In everyday talk, especially American talk, people often just say bird or birdie. Shuttlecock is the clearer name, the one you will see in rules and in a dictionary. It is not the Chinese kicking toy, and it is not a little bird, even though it looks a bit like one in flight.
In everyday talk在日常對話裡 especially American talk尤其是美式說法 people often just say bird or birdie大家常常直接說bird或birdie Shuttlecock is the clearer nameshuttlecock是比較正式清楚的說法 the one you will see in rules and in a dictionary是你會在規則和字典裡看到的那個字 It is not the Chinese kicking toy它不是中文說的那種踢的毽子 and it is not a little bird也不是一隻小鳥 even though it looks a bit like one in flight雖然飛起來看起來有點像鳥
core核心畫面
組成shuttle（來回移動；本義是織布機上那支來回穿線的梭）+ cock（公雞；羽毛那一頭看起來像公雞尾巴上的一撮毛）。
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。
shuttlecocknoun/ˈʃʌtl̩ˌkɒk/
- 1
A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
- Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air. [...] The shittlecock was made of a piece of dried skin rolled round, and bound with strings. Into this skin were inserted three long feathers spreading out at top, but so near to each other, where they were stuck into the skin, as to pass through the holes, little more than a quarter of an inch square, which are always made in the centre of Cochin-chinese copper coins.
- In a severe gale like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast, it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the compasses, at intervals, go round and round.
- 2
datedThe game of badminton.
- Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.
- Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock […]
shuttlecockverb/ˈʃʌtl̩ˌkɒk/
- 1
To move rapidly back and forth.
- 2
To send or toss back and forth; to bandy.
- to shuttlecock words
- if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。