喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/ˈkɑːrpəntər/ · /ˈkɑːpəntə/木匠

    someone whose job is making and repairing wooden things, such as doors, shelves, or furniture

    示範例句 · Example

    My uncle is a carpenter, and he built our new bookshelf.

    逐字我的叔叔是一個木匠，並且他建造了我們的新書架。

    「carpenter」是英文裡最常用的「木匠」——工作是用木頭做出東西，或把木頭做的東西修好。常見畫面：做書架、修木門、釘桌子。它跟 woodworker 很近：woodworker 可以泛指「做木頭工作的人」，carpenter 更常指「靠木工吃飯的那份職業」。同族字 carpentry 指「木工這門手藝／工作」，不是人。

    常見搭配

    • work as a carpenter

      當木匠；從事木工

      to have the job of a carpenter

      She works as a carpenter in a small workshop.

    • a skilled carpenter

      技術好的木匠

      a carpenter who is very good at the job

      A skilled carpenter made the wooden stairs strong and safe.

    • hire / ask a carpenter

      請／雇一位木匠

      to pay or invite a carpenter to do woodwork for you

      We hired a carpenter to build shelves in the study.

    • carpenter's tools

      木匠的工具

      the tools a carpenter uses, such as a saw or hammer

      His carpenter's tools were neat on the workbench.

    • train as a carpenter

      受訓當木匠；學木工

      to learn the skills needed to become a carpenter

      After school he trained as a carpenter with his uncle.

    意思相近

    woodworkerjoinercabinet-maker

core核心畫面

Picture a workshop that smells of : someone measures a plank, marks it with a pencil behind the ear, cuts it, and joins it to another piece until a door, a shelf or a table stands up straight. The material is always wood, and the work is always building or fixing something solid you can lean on. That person at the bench — saw, hammer, tape measure, a pile of cut timber — is the whole of the word.

可以想成一間聞得到木屑味的工作間：有人量好一塊木板，用夾在耳朵上的鉛筆畫線，鋸下來，再跟另一塊接起來，直到一扇門、一個櫃子或一張桌子站得穩穩的。材料一定是木頭，做的事一定是把實實在在、能靠上去的東西做出來或修好。工作檯前那個帶著鋸子、鎚子、捲尺、腳邊堆著木料的人，就是這個字的全部。

From the word’s history

From Anglo-French/Old North French 'carpentier', from Late Latin '(artifex) carpentarius' = 'wagon maker, carriage-maker', from Latin 'carpentum' = 'wagon, two-wheeled carriage', a word taken from Gaulish. In English (c. 1300) it settled on 'one who does the heavier sort of wood-working', displacing Old English 'treowwyrhta', literally 'tree-wright'.

這個字最早不是「做家具的人」，而是「做馬車的人」：拉丁文 carpentum 指的是兩輪的馬車，carpentarius 就是造車的匠人。造車在當年正是最粗重的木工活，所以這個字進了英文（約 1300 年）以後，就從「造車的」擴大成「做粗重木工的人」，還把原本的古英文說法 treowwyrhta（字面是「樹—工匠」）擠掉了。知道這一層，就比較好記住 carpenter 的重點在「用木頭做出結構」，不是在做精細的雕刻。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'carpenter'

同家族的字

複數 carpenters

意思相近

woodworkerjoinercabinet-maker

原始詞典資料25 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。

Carpentername

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carpenternoun/ˈkɑː.pən.tə/

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    A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.

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    nauticaltransportA senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.

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    A two-wheeled carriage.

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    biologynatural-scienceszoologyA carpenter bee.

    • The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.
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    regionalA woodlouse.

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carpenterverb/ˈkɑː.pən.tə/

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    To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.

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