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dresser

noun

A dresser can be pictured as a piece of furniture that stands against a wall and keeps your everyday things laid out ready for use. In a British kitchen, the plates and cups sit on open shelves where you can see them. In an American bedroom, the clothes sit in drawers and the small things sit on the flat top, often under a mirror. The shared picture is a standing place where things are arranged and waiting.

可以想成一件靠牆站著的家具:東西在上面、在裡面,擺得整整齊齊,要用的時候伸手就拿得到。英式的 dresser 把碗盤放在看得見的開放層架上,帶著一點展示的味道;美式的 dresser 把衣服收進抽屜,檯面上放鑰匙、梳子,上面常常還有一面鏡子。兩邊的共通畫面,都是「一個把日常用品擺好、隨時待命的位置」。

From the word’s history

The furniture sense comes through Middle English dressure from Old French drecëur, formed on the verb dresser (to arrange, to set out). The oldest English use recorded by the source is a table or bench on which meat and other things were dressed, that is, prepared. A surface where things were made ready grew into a cupboard where they are kept ready.

家具的意思來自中古英語 dressure,再往前是古法文 drecëur,跟動詞 dresser(擺放、整理)同一條線。來源裡也記著一個較舊的用法:dresser 曾經指廚房裡處理肉類、備料的檯子。從「備料的檯面」長成「把東西擺好收好的櫃子」,這條線是看得出來的。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract), dresser noun etymology 1: from Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser; plus dated sense wikt:dresser:noun:7 (a table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed).

A second word, same spelling

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dresser

noun

This dresser is a person, built from dress plus -er: the one who does the dressing. Who gets dressed is what makes the meanings differ. If it is yourself, the word describes the way you dress. If it is someone else, the word names a job: getting an actor into a costume, or laying out clothes in a grand household. And if what gets dressed is a wound rather than a body, the word names the hospital who cleans and it.

這一組的 dresser 都是人,可以想成 dress(打理)加上 -er(做這件事的人),也就是「負責 dress 的那位」。差別在於他 dress 的對象是誰。對象是自己,講的就是這個人怎麼穿;對象是別人,講的就是一份工作——幫演員換戲服,或是替大戶人家把衣服準備好;而如果被 dress 的是傷口而不是身體,那就是醫院裡負責清創包紮的人。

From the word’s history

The source gives this dresser a separate etymology from the furniture word: Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress plus -er. So the person senses are built on the English verb dress with the ordinary agent ending.

來源把這組意思和家具的 dresser 分成兩條不同的字源:這裡是中古英語 dresser,等於 dress 加上 -er。也就是說,這些意思都是直接從英文動詞 dress 加上「做這件事的人」的字尾長出來的。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract), dresser noun etymology 2: from Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.

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