喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈspiːʃiːz/物種 / 種

    A group of animals or plants that are alike and can have young together.

    A group of animals or plants一群動物或植物 that are alike彼此相似 and can have young together而且能一起繁殖後代

    示範例句 · Example

    Pandas are an endangered species, which means they may soon disappear.

    逐字熊貓是一個瀕危的物種，這意思是牠們可能很快就會消失。

    species 是生物學的「種」：一群長得像、而且能一起繁殖後代的動物或植物，例如「老虎」是一個 species，「熊貓」是另一個。可以想成它是大自然分類的最小一格。要小心：species 單複數同形，one species、ten species 都長一樣，沒有 specie 這種單數寫法。

    常見搭配

    • endangered species

      瀕危物種

      a kind of animal or plant that may soon no longer exist

      We must protect endangered species like the tiger.

    • a new species

      新物種

      a kind of living thing that has just been found and named

      They discovered a new species of fish.

    • species of (something)

      某種(生物)

      a kind or type of a certain living thing

      This forest has many species of tree.

core核心畫面

You can picture species as one box on a shelf of living things: inside it sit animals or plants that are alike enough to be 'the same kind' and can have young together. Dogs are one box, oak trees another. The word is simply the name for one of those boxes.

可以把 species 想成生物架上的一個盒子：盒子裡裝著彼此夠像、算「同一種」、而且能一起繁衍後代的動物或植物。狗是一個盒子，橡樹是另一個盒子。這個字就是這種盒子的名字，指生物分類裡最基本的那一格「種」。

複數 species

原始詞典資料12 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。

speciesnoun/ˈspiːʃiːz/

  • 1

    A type or kind. (Compare race.)

    • the male species
    • a new species of war
  • 2

    biologynatural-sciencesA type or kind. (Compare race.)

    • This species of animal is unique to the area.
    • Louise felt raised above her species; a voice had spoken within her inmost soul, whose revealings were vouchsafed but to the chosen few; and what had been indifference, was now disdain.
  • 3

    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyA type or kind. (Compare race.)

    • Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.
    • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
  • 4

    A type or kind. (Compare race.)

  • 5

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA type or kind. (Compare race.)

  • 6

    chemistrygeographygeologyA type or kind. (Compare race.)

  • 7

    obsoleteAn image, an appearance, a spectacle.

    • I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.
  • 8

    obsoleteAn image, an appearance, a spectacle.

    • Wit,[…]the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.
    • the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    ChristianityEither of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.

  • 10

    Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

    • There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.
  • 11

    A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • specie

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