1. 1郵差(口語)。台灣郵局正式職稱是「郵務士」;中國大陸較常說「郵遞員」。

    A mailman is the person who brings letters and parcels to your house. It is the usual word in American English. In Britain people more often say . Though actually, the job was never only for men, and many of the people who do it today are women; careful American English now likes mail carrier or letter carrier, which does not pick a sex. Families still say mailman without thinking, the way they once said even when the person had changed. It is everyday speech, a little old-fashioned in careful writing, but nobody will look at you strangely for it.

core核心畫面

組成From mail + man. Mail is the letters and packages; man here means the person whose job it is.

同家族的字

  • mailthe letters and packages this person brings
  • mailboxsame mail: the box they open or drop letters into
  • postmanthe same job; the usual word in Britain

原始詞典資料2 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。

Mailmanname

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    A surname.

mailmannoun/ˈmeɪl.mæn/

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    Someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.

    • "What I'm thinking," she said, "is that I'll become a mailman. They're hiring women mailmen now, you know. […]"

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。