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  1. 1nA1/zuː/動物園

    a place, often in a city, where many kinds of animals are kept so that people can go to look at them.

    示範例句 · Example

    We're going to the zoo this Saturday to see the pandas.

    逐字我們要去動物園這個星期六去看熊貓。

    「zoo」是英文裡最常用的「動物園」：一個地方，養著很多種動物，讓人去看、去認識。最常見的說法是 go to the zoo（去動物園）。at the zoo 用在「在動物園做某件事」（買票、看熊貓）；in the zoo 常講「動物住在園裡」。核心畫面可以想成「專門讓人看動物的大公園」——後面 zoo animals、zoo keeper 都是從這個地方長出來的。

    常見搭配

    • go to the zoo

      去動物園

      to visit a zoo

      We're going to the zoo, remember?

    • zoo animals

      動物園裡的動物

      animals that live in a zoo

      Wow, you know a lot about zoo animals!

    • zoo keeper

      動物園管理員／飼育員

      a person whose job is to look after animals in a zoo

      The zoo keeper said the elephant was calm and gentle.

    • at the zoo

      在動物園（參觀、活動）

      in or at the place of the zoo (for visits and activities)

      The kids had a ride on a little train at the zoo.

    • in the zoo

      在動物園裡（常指動物住在那裡）

      inside the zoo, often about animals living there

      There is a panda in the zoo.

    • petting zoo

      可撫摸動物的小動物園／寵物動物園

      a small zoo where children can touch gentle animals

      We're taking our kids to a petting zoo today.

    意思相近

    wildlife parkanimal parkmenagerie

    用法接近

    aquariumsafari parkpetting zoocircus

core核心畫面

Picture a place in the city where animals from all over the world are kept in enclosures, with paths between them and people walking round to look. It exists so that visitors can see animals they would never meet otherwise.

可以想成：城市裡的一塊地方，來自世界各地的動物住在一區一區的圍欄裡，中間是走道，人們沿著路一邊走一邊看。它存在的理由就是讓人看見平常見不到的動物。

複數 zoos

意思相近

wildlife parkanimal parkmenagerie

用法接近

aquariumsafari parkpetting zoocircus

原始詞典資料6 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。

zoonoun/zuː/

  • 1

    A park where live animals are exhibited.

    • The London Zoo was built in 1828.
    • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
  • 2

    informalAny place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.

    • The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.
  • 3

    informalA large and varied collection of something.

    • After his insightful book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Spoto published The Dark Side of Genius, a portrayal of the elderly director as a lonely man who was a veritable zoo of desires, suspicions, fears, and addictions (food, drink, romantic infatuation, and filmmaking).
    • From this point on, an entire zoo of possibilities arose: strange stars, different families of neutron stars, hybrid stars, etc.
  • 4

    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe jungle.

    • I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.
  • 5

    informalClipping of zoophile.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • zoophile

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