- 1海灘拾荒者（也指在沙灘撿貝殼、漂流木的人，不一定是拾荒維生）
A beachcomber is someone who walks the shore looking for what the sea has left: shells, driftwood, glass, useful scraps, sometimes wreckage. In a gentle sense it is a slow hobby — you comb the tide line the way you comb hair, catching what is there. In older Pacific stories, a beachcomber could also be a drifter who lived off the beach and passing ships, and the word then felt a little rough and unrooted. It is not a formal job title. The picture is always a person searching the sand, not a tool and not a wave — though comber by itself can mean a long curling wave, which is why the mix-up happens.
組成From beach + comber. A comber is someone who combs. Beach comes down through Middle English bache and Old English bæċ, old Germanic words for the shore.
原始詞典資料6 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。
Beachcombername
- 1
A retreat in Smiths Bay, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
- 2
A private island, one of the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.
beachcombernoun/ˈbit͡ʃˌkoʊmɚ/
- 1
nauticaltransportA seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
- The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it. They are easy of approach and affable in conversation.
- 2
Any loafer around a waterfront.
- 3
A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.
- Now and again a wreck was to be seen, or a vessel left lonely and sad on a reef, her rigging dismantled and only waiting for beachcombers to come and break her up for the sake of her timber and old iron.
- 4
A long rolling wave of the sea.
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。