| 单词 | lumber |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['lʌmbə] |
| 解释 | v.蹒跚而行，笨拙地走；n.杂物；木材 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 n. 杂物(miscellaneous discarded household articles) 【考】 lumber : grace / waver : resolution(笨拙地移动不会优雅 /动摇不会坚决)反义词: glide(滑行) 【记】 lumber 原意是'木材'之意 【例】 A perspiring old woman lumbered past. |
| 字源 | lumber (n.) "timber sawn into rough planks," 1660s, American English (Massachusetts), earlier "disused bit of furniture; heavy, useless objects" (1550s), probably from lumber (v.), perhaps influenced by Lombard, from the Italian immigrants famous as pawnbrokers and money-lenders in England (see Lombard). Lumbar, Lumbard were old alternative forms of Lombard in English. The evolution of sense then would be because a lumber-house ("pawn shop") naturally accumulates odds and ends of furniture. Live Lumber, soldiers or passengers on board a ship are so called by the sailors. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785] LUMBER HOUSE. A house appropriated by thieves for the reception of their stolen property. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811] lumber (v.) "to move clumsily," c.1300, lomere, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Swedish loma "move slowly, walk heavily," Old Norse lami "lame"), ultimately cognate with lame (adj.). Related: Lumbered; lumbering. |
| 不择手段背单词 | v. 沉重、缓慢地移动; n 笨重的杂物 【记】lumber = timber(n 木料)走路象笨重的木料: 沉重、缓慢地移动 【参】lumberjack(n 伐木工人) 【类】lumber: grace = waver: resolution笨拙地移动不会优雅 = 动摇不会坚决 【反】glide(v /n 滑行) |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】类似cumber 妨碍 与timber 木材；伐木时拖着木头笨重地走；音：拉木板→拉木头板走路是蹒跚的；long + 音：木板 【相关】cumber 妨碍，累赘，encumber 阻碍，timber 木材, 木料 |
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