| 正面 | 12328.plumber 英 ['plʌmə]美 ['plʌmɚ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： butt 大酒桶。bottle 酒瓶。butler (管理酒窖的)男管家。1. bottle => butler.2. bottle => butt.n. 水管工；堵漏人员 例句： 1. When the pipe leaked, we sent for a plumber.煤气或水管漏了的时候, 我们就派人去找一位管子工. plumber 管道工来自plumb,铅，-er,人。即与铅打交道的人，因过去自来水管多为铅管，因此引申词义管道 工。 plumber (n.)late 14c. (from c. 1100 as a surname), "a worker in any sort of lead" (roofs, gutters, pipes), from Old French plomier "lead-smelter" (Modern French plombier) and directly from Latin plumbarius "worker in lead," noun use of adjective meaning "pertaining to lead," from plumbum "lead" (see plumb (n.)). Meaning focused 19c. on "workman who installs pipes and fittings" as lead water pipes became the principal concern of the trade. In U.S. Nixon administration (1969-74), the name of a special unit for investigation of "leaks" of government secrets." |