喜樂美語
  1. 1碎浪、拍岸浪（浪頭翻捲、帶白色泡沫的浪）

    A breaker is a big sea wave that turns over and falls as it comes towards the shore, with white foam along the top. Out in deep water a wave just rolls along; when it reaches shallow water near the beach, the bottom of the wave slows down, the top keeps going, and the wave tips over — it breaks. A wave doing that is a breaker. You mostly meet the word in the plural, describing what the sea looks like: 'huge breakers crashing on the rocks', 'the breakers rolled in all afternoon'. It has a slightly literary, picture-painting feel — it is common in stories, poems, and travel writing, and less common in everyday speech, where people just say 'big waves'. do use it, though. Two other meanings will cross your path. A circuit breaker (often to just 'breaker') is the switch in your electricity box that cuts the power when there is too much current — 'the breaker tripped again'. And a breaker can be a machine or a person that breaks things up: a rock breaker, a code breaker, a strike breaker. All of these are the same idea underneath — the thing that does the breaking — but the wave meaning is the one that stands most on its own, because there the wave breaks itself.

From the word’s history

From Middle English breker; break + -er.

源自中古英文 breker，就是 break 加上 -er。

Wiktionary

組成break + -er. The ending -er names the one that does the action — a teacher teaches, a heater heats, a breaker breaks. Related words exist across the North Sea languages: Dutch has 'breker' and German 'Brecher'.

同家族的字

  • breakthe plain verb this comes from
  • breakwatera wall built out into the sea to stop breakers reaching the shore

原始詞典資料12 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。

breakernoun詞源 1/ˈbɹeɪkə/

  • 1

    Something that breaks (something else).

    • a breaker of men's souls
  • 2

    A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.

  • 3

    The building in which such a machine is placed.

    • at the coal breaker
    • A: Is John at the tipple? B: No, he's at the breaker today.
  • 4

    A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard

    • Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish[…]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.
    • And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea
  • 5

    A breakdancer.

  • 6

    datedA user of CB radio.

    • Their radios had been blocked by a breaker calling himself Yankee Bucket Mouth.

breakerintj詞源 1/ˈbɹeɪkə/

  • 1

    datedUsed to open a conversation or call for a response on CB radio.

    • breaker one nine
    • Breaker to the Bandit

breakernoun詞源 2

  • 1

    A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.

    • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • shipbreaker
  • car breaker
  • horsebreaker
  • circuit breaker

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。