喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈpoʊstmən/ · /ˈpəʊstmən/郵差

    someone whose job is to collect letters and take them to people's homes and workplaces. This is the British word; American English says or mail carrier.

    示範例句 · Example

    The postman comes to our street at about nine every morning.

    逐字郵差每天早上大約九點來我們這條街。

    postman 就是每天把信送到你家的那個人——他的工作有兩邊：先把信收走，再把信送到。post 可以想成「寄出去的信」，postman 就是「跟著這些信跑的人」。要注意的是用字的地區：英國說 postman，美國說 mailman 或 mail carrier，指的是同一種工作。複數是 postmen（跟 man→men 一樣），不是 postmans。

    常見搭配

    • the postman comes

      郵差來了（送信）

      the postman arrives with the letters

      The postman comes twice a day in our town.

    • wait for the postman

      等郵差（等信）

      to wait for the letters to arrive

      Hana waited for the postman all morning.

    • the postman's round

      郵差固定的送信路線

      the fixed route a postman walks each day

      There are over two hundred houses on the postman's round.

    • deliver letters

      送信

      to take letters to people's homes

      Postmen deliver letters in all kinds of weather.

    • a local postman

      當地的郵差

      the postman who works in your own area

      The local postman has worked here for thirty years.

    意思相近

    mailmanmail carrierletter carrierpostwomanpostie

core核心畫面

You can picture the person who carries the day's letters along a street and drops them through each door — the human link between the post office and your home. In Britain this person is a postman; American English usually says or mail carrier.

可以想成那個背著一袋信、沿著街道一家一家把信投進門縫的人——郵局和你家之間那段路，是由他走完的。這是英式說法；美式英語多半講 mailman 或 mail carrier。整個字就是 post（郵件）加上 man，字面上就是「管郵件的人」。

同家族的字

複數 postmen

意思相近

mailmanmail carrierletter carrierpostwomanpostie

原始詞典資料3 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。

Postmanname

  • 1

    A surname.

postmannoun/ˈpəʊs(t)mən/

  • 1

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

    • The total of their members amounts to 342,723 for 1875. Among these number … 6,968 male and sixty-three female postmen, imperial railway, telegraph, and post officials, railway workmen, dependent boatmen, waiters, &c.; …
    • A single narrow iron-clamped door formed the only means of entrance. On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat-tat.
  • 2

    historicalOne of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sat, the other of the two being the tubman.

    • Postman of the Court of Exchequer.

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。