核心畫面

You can hold this word as one job title: the one who sends the explosive on its way. Not the one who drives, not the one who plans - the one at the moment of release. Every meaning here is that role somewhere different: in the nose of an aircraft, on the rank list of a gun unit, and, as a joke of naming, on a beetle that back.

bombardier 可以想成一個職稱:負責把爆裂的東西送出去的那個人。不是開車開飛機的人,也不是規劃的人,而是按下更多收起bombardier 可以想成一個職稱:負責把爆裂的東西送出去的那個人。不是開車開飛機的人,也不是規劃的人,而是按下去的那一刻在場的人。這一頁的每個意思,都可以當成同一個角色換了地方:飛機的機鼻裡、砲兵的階級表上,還有一隻會反擊的甲蟲身上。

From the word’s history

The evidence packet derives the word from bombard plus -ier, by way of Italian bombardiere and Middle French bombardier - literally the person who works the bombard, an early cannon.

提供的來源把這個字拆成 bombard 加 -ier,並經由義大利文 bombardiere 和中古法文進入英文。字面就是「操作 bombard(早期火砲)的人」。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this batch's evidence packet (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1155856204): "Partly borrowed from Italian bombardiere... By surface analysis, bombard + -ier."

Two branches

軍中的那個人

這兩個意思都是核心畫面本身,只是一個講的是做什麼,一個講的是叫什麼階。

noun · C1

The member of a bomber aircraft's crew whose job is to aim the bombs and release them at the right moment. The source marks this use American and Canadian English.

轟炸機投彈手

被借去當名字的甲蟲

這是把上面那個角色借給一隻蟲:牠被碰到時會噴出滾燙的液體,還會發出響聲,所以人們就用開砲的人來替牠命名。

noun · C2

A bombardier beetle: a small beetle that defends itself by shooting a hot, bad-smelling spray out of its back end, with a popping sound.

投彈手甲蟲(放屁蟲)