1. 1nB1/ˈbɪldər/ · /ˈbɪldə/建築工人;建商

    a person, or a company, whose job is to build houses and other buildings, or to repair them.

    示範例句 · Example

    We called a builder to fix the leaking roof.

    逐字我們叫了一位建築工人來修理那個漏水的屋頂。

    「builder」是 build(蓋)加上 -er,所以可以想成「做蓋房子這件事的那一方」。這個「那一方」可以是一個人(來你家修屋頂的師傅),也可以是一家公司(蓋整片社區的建商),英文用同一個字。另外,builder 不只蓋新的,修舊的也算;跟 architect 分工不同——architect 畫設計圖,builder 動手蓋和修。

core核心畫面

Think of the person whose actual job is putting a building up — laying bricks, raising walls, fixing a roof that has gone bad. The word stretches from one person on site to the whole company that takes on the work, but the picture stays the same: the one who does the building, not the one who designs it or lives in it.

可以想成:真正把房子蓋起來的那個人——砌磚、立牆、屋頂壞了去修的人。這個字從工地上的一個師傅,一路涵蓋到承接整個工程的公司,但畫面沒變:他是「動手蓋」的那一方,不是畫圖的(那是 architect),也不是住進去的。修繕也算,因為在英文的感覺裡,把房子弄好和把房子蓋起來是同一種工作。

原始詞典資料4 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。

buildernoun/ˈbɪl.də/

  • 1

    One who builds or constructs things.

  • 2

    businessfinancetradingMaster artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.

  • 3

    Software that allows the user to create a certain kind of (often automated) output.

    • To cut coding time and to insure maintainability of the algorithms, an "algorithm builder tool" was constructed.
    • A map builder uses map layers from several sources and adds data to make a custom map.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • bodybuilder

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。