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Lumber Lumbered Large Pieces Cut Move Noun Verb

'Lumber' has multiple meanings: as a noun, it's cut wood (or old furniture/items in BrE); as a verb, it means to move heavily or to cut trees (AmE), or informally, to burden someone.

英文:'Lumber' has multiple meanings. As a noun, it refers to wood that has been cut into pieces, and in British English, it can also mean old or unwanted furniture and large objects. As a verb, it means to move slowly and heavily, or in American English, to cut down trees. It can also informally mean to burden someone with an unwanted responsibility.

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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]木材;方材 Lumber consists of trees and large pieces of wood that have been roughly cut up.
  [mainly AM 主美]
  • It was made of soft lumber, spruce by the look of it...

    其制作材料是软木,看起来像是云杉。

  • He was going to have to purchase all his lumber at full retail price.

    他将不得不把所有木材按零售价分文不少地买下来。

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[VERB 动词](缓慢而笨拙地)挪动,移动 If someone or something lumbers from one place to another, they move there very slowly and clumsily.
  [V adv/prep]
  [V-ing]
  • He turned and lumbered back to his chair...

    他转过身来,蹒跚着走回到椅子边坐下。

  • The truck lumbered across the parking lot toward the road...

    卡车隆隆地驶过停车场准备上路。

  • He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry.

    他眼睛直视前方,加速超过了前面一辆慢吞吞行进的大卡车。

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Oxford lum·ber / ˈlʌmbə(r) ; NAmE ˈlʌmbər /
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verb
lumber lumbers lumbered lumbering
noun [uncountable ] 1 ( especially NAmE) =
timber
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2 ( BrE) pieces of furniture, and other large objects that you do not use any more 废旧家具;不用的大件物品 a lumber room (= for storing lumberin) 杂物贮藏室
verb 1 [intransitive ] + adv./prep. to move in a slow, heavy and awkward way 缓慢吃力地移动;笨拙地行进 A family of elephants lumbered by. 一群大象迈着缓慢而沉重的步子从旁边经过。 2 [transitive ,  usually passive ] lumbersb (with sb/sth) ( informal) to give sb a responsibility, etc, that they do not want and that they cannot get rid of 迫使担负(职责等) When our parents went out, my sister got lumbered with me for the evening. 父母外出时,晚上姐姐就得照管我。 lum·ber / ˈlʌmbə(r) ; NAmE ˈlʌmbər /
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lumberlum‧ber1 /ˈlʌmbə $ -ər/ verb
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1[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to move in a slow awkward waylumber up/towards/into/along etc They lumbered along slowly. A blue bus lumbered past.2[transitive] informal to give someone a job or responsibility that they do not wantget/be lumbered with something A career was less easy once I was lumbered with a husband and children.3[intransitive] American English to cut down trees in a large area and prepare them to be sold
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lumberlumber2 noun [uncountable]
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1lumber (1)pieces of wood used for building, that have been cut to specific lengths and widths SYN  timber2British English informal large objects that are no longer useful or wanted
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[ˈlʌmbə(r)]lumbered, lumbering, lumbers

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木材(79%),木料(10%),伐木(6%),拖累(4%),缓慢地移动(1%)
vi.伐木;喧闹地向前走;笨重地行动,缓慢地移动
vt.砍伐木材;乱堆
n.木材;废物,无用的杂物;隆隆声

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