核心畫面

You can picture a bomber as whatever delivers the bomb — the -er end of the word just names the . Sometimes that is a machine, a heavy plane flying over a city and letting its bombs fall; sometimes it is a person, the one who put the bomb where it would go off. Same word, because the job described is the same.

可以想成「把炸彈送到目的地的那一方」——bomb 加上 -er,-er 就只是在指「做這件事的東西或人」。有時候那是更多收起可以想成「把炸彈送到目的地的那一方」——bomb 加上 -er,-er 就只是在指「做這件事的東西或人」。有時候那是一台機器:一架重型飛機飛過城市上空,把炸彈投下去;有時候那是一個人:把炸彈放到某個地方、讓它在那裡爆炸的人。同一個字能兼顧兩者,是因為被描述的那份「工作」根本是同一件事。

原始詞典資料7 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。

bombernoun詞源 1/ˈbɒmə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.

    • As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.
    • B-2 bombers are the only plane capable of carrying the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which experts have highlighted as the only type of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. Each B-2 bomber is able to carry two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh an impressive 30,000 pounds each.
  • 2

    A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.

    • The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last spring told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set fire to the country and stir up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
  • 3

    slangA 22-ounce beer bottle.

  • 4

    slangA large cannabis cigarette.

    • In Canada, marihuana cigarettes rarely contain any tobacco, and may vary in size from a few hundred milligrams up to a several gram "bomber."
    • That night, I swallowed the last of my pain pills, smoked a bomber, and let the drugs carry me away.

bomberadj詞源 2/ˈbɒmə(ɹ)/

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    slangclimbinghobbieslifestyleCompletely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。