- 1nB1/ˈtaɪɡər/ · /ˈtaɪɡə/老虎
A large wild animal of the cat family, with orange fur and black stripes.
示範例句 · Example
The tiger moved quietly through the tall grass, watching a deer far away.
逐字老虎安靜地穿過長長的草叢，看著遠處的一隻鹿。
「tiger」就是老虎，貓科裡最大的野生動物之一，橘底黑條紋。英文也常用 tiger 形容「兇猛、有衝勁的人」。片語 paper tiger 指「看起來嚇人、其實沒實力」，中文剛好也講「紙老虎」。
常見搭配
tiger cub
虎寶寶／幼虎
a baby tiger
The tiger cub stayed close to its mother.
wild tiger
野生老虎
a tiger living free in nature
There are very few wild tigers left in the forests.
tiger's stripes
老虎的條紋
the black lines on a tiger's body
No two tigers have exactly the same stripes.
意思相近
big cat
core核心畫面
Picture the big striped cat of the forest: orange coat, black stripes, the largest cat alive. It hunts alone and moves almost without sound, taking one animal down in a single rush rather than chasing in a pack. That quiet, heavy power is most of what English carries in the word.
複數 tigers
意思相近
big cat
原始詞典資料23 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。
Tigername
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The third of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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A town in Georgia.
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An unincorporated community in Washington.
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A popular given name for a pet.
Tigernoun
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesSomeone connected with Hull City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
tigernoun詞源 1/ˈtaɪɡə/
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Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
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Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- Coordinate term: tigress
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
- What you mean is that no scientist has captured one and been able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it exists, which is probably very good news for the tiger.
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obsoleteOther animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
- Similar is the test among the Moxos of Peru. One of their totems is the tiger; and a candidate for the rank of medicine-man must prove his kinship to the tiger by being bitten by that animal and surviving the bite.
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
另外 8 個記錄的用法
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Other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesA representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger. The ordinary tiger has no stripes, has a horn protruding from its nose, has tusks like a boar and a tufted mane, and has a lion's tail instead of a tiger's.
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A leopard.
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
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A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.
- Then came the 2008 credit turmoil and ensuing economic slump, which not only belittled the huge economic and social gains of the various Baltic and Celtic Tigers, as well as of several former communist nations of Central Europe.
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obsoleteA servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
- We arranged that I should come here alone in the London coach; and that he, leaving his tiger and cab behind him, should come on , and arrive here as soon as possible this afternoon
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
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slangA person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- Don't […] Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
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A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- As for that heinous tiger, Tamora, No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds, No mournful bell shall ring her burial; But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey.
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A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
tigernoun詞源 2
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A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- He spoke with a very strong Scotch accent, and is by no means a graceful orator, but he produced througout a most favourable impression upon all his hearers, and especially upon the students, one of whom shouted as the speaker closed, 'Long Live PRESIDENT M'COSH!' and then proposed three cheers, which were given with a will, followed by the usual tiger and ' rocket.'
- . . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.
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