喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of blow with -er stuck on the end, the way English turns almost any action into a name for whatever does it. The picture that comes out is simple: a thing, or a person, with air coming out of it. A fan behind a , a pipe feeding a furnace, a craftworker with their cheeks full — all of them are the same shape, just at different sizes. Everything else this word does starts from that puff of moving air.

blower 可以想成 blow 後面黏上 -er，也就是英文把一個動作變成「做這件事的東西或人」的老方法。跑出來的…更多收起blower 可以想成 blow 後面黏上 -er，也就是英文把一個動作變成「做這件事的東西或人」的老方法。跑出來的畫面很單純：一個有空氣從它那裡出來的東西。儀表板後面的小風扇、送空氣進爐子的管子、鼓著臉頰的吹玻璃師傅，形狀其實是同一個，只是大小不同。這個字的其他用法，都可以從這股被推出去的空氣開始看。

From the word’s history

From Middle English blowere, blower, from Old English blāwere; it is blow plus -er, the ending that names the doer.

資料記載這個字來自中古英語 blowere，更早是古英語 blāwere，相當於 blow 加上 -er。-er 這個字尾指「做這件事的人或東西」，所以這個字從一開始就是「會吹的那一個」。

Wiktionary entry for blower (etymology_text supplied in the evidence packet, kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:263477418)

Three branches

會吹風的機器

-er 指向一個東西時，就落在這一族：只要它的工作是把空氣推出去，大小和場合都不影響。

noun · B2

A machine, or a part of a machine, that pushes air out through an opening. The one in a car sends warm or cool air into the inside of the car; others feed air into a furnace or into an engine.

送風機、鼓風機

會吹的人

同一個 -er，只是指向人而不是機器。這條路比較舊，今天多半躲在比較長的名字裡。

noun · C1

A person who blows: someone who works air with their breath or with a tool, such as a person who blows a horn or who worked the bellows in an old workshop.

吹（某樣東西）的人

電話的舊俚語

一個你對著它出聲、聲音從另一頭出來的東西——這是一個好記的聯想，不是這份資料提供的來歷，所以只當記憶掛鉤看。

noun · C1

If someone is on the blower, they are talking to someone on the telephone. It is old-fashioned British slang, and it keeps the in front of it: on the blower, get on the blower.

在講電話

原始詞典資料11 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。

Blowername

  • 1

    A surname originating as an occupation.

blowernoun/ˈbləʊ.ə/

  • 1

    A person who blows.

  • 2

    businessminingA fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.

    • The great sources of fire-damp in coal mines are blowers or fissures from which currents of this inflammable gas issue in considerable quantities and for a long series of years
  • 3

    Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.

    • The locomotive […] was quietly "blowing off" on one Ross "pop" valve, whilst the rhythmic clanging of the fireman's shovel, the black smoke pouring from her chimney, and the harsh sound of the blower told of the proximity of departure time.
  • 4

    Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.

    • The three motors on each bogie are force ventilated from a blower mounted in the adjacent nose-end compartment of the superstructure, the air being led by ducts and flexible bellows connections to the air inlet at the commutator end of the motor.
  • 5

    slangTelephone.

    • Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!
    • I got off the blower oozing no confidence at all.
  • 6

    historicalslangTelephone.

  • 7

    datedA braggart, or loud talker.

    • There hangs something majestic about a man who has borne his part in battles, especially if he is very quiet regarding it when you desire him to unbosom. I am continually lost at the absence of blowing and blowers among these old-young American militaires.
  • 8

    nauticaltransportThe whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.

  • 10

    slangA gun.

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。