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/ˈbɑːrmən/ · /ˈbɑːmən/
A man whose job is to serve drinks to people in a bar, taking their orders and passing the drinks across the counter.
酒保（男）
複數 barmen
核心畫面
Think of the man standing on the working side of a bar counter: bottles and taps behind him, customers in front of him. He listens to what they want, pours it, and pushes the glass across the counter to them. The word is simply bar (the counter you buy drinks at) plus man, so the picture is a person defined by where he stands and what crosses that counter.
可以想成一個站在吧檯「裡面」那一側的男人：背後是酒瓶和啤酒龍頭，面前是一整排客人。他聽客人點什麼、倒好、再把杯子推過…更多收起
可以想成一個站在吧檯「裡面」那一側的男人：背後是酒瓶和啤酒龍頭，面前是一整排客人。他聽客人點什麼、倒好、再把杯子推過檯面遞出去。這個字就是 bar（賣酒的檯子）加上 man，畫面感比較像「由他站的位置和遞過檯面的東西來定義的人」——所以它指的是工作，不是喝酒的人。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Barmanname
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A surname.
barmannoun/ˈbɑːmən/
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A man who works in a bar.
- NOT so long ago there was a beer commercial on British TV in which two pointy-headed aliens order a pint in a rural pub. “Up from London, are we?” the barman asks politely.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。