- 1守車（火車最後一節，車長坐的那節）
A caboose is a small railway car at the very back of a goods train. The person in charge of the train used to ride there, watch the other cars, and sometimes cook and sleep — which fits the old 'little kitchen' idea in the word's past. Most modern goods trains in many countries no longer have one; cameras and sensors do that job now. The word is especially American. In Britain people have talked about a guard's van or a brake van for a similar car. Though actually, English speakers also stretch caboose in a way to mean a person's bottom, the 'back end.' That use is informal and a bit cheeky. The meaning here is the railway car.
組成Does not split in English. From Dutch kabuis or kombuis (a ship's kitchen) or from German Low German Kabüüs (also a ship's kitchen), going back to Middle Dutch cabûse and Middle Low German kabûs / kabûse. Kitchen-words from the same family live on in German, Danish, Swedish, and French. It is probably related to old English boose, a stall or shed — but that last link is only 'probably.'
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。
caboosenoun/kəˈbuːs/
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obsoletenauticaltransportA small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
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historicalnauticaltransportA small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
- On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boats, entirely destroyed two others, and threw down the cambouse.
- This stove is to be made in the form of a Franklin, but is to be furnished with an oven, and other means of cooking; its appearance is therefore more like that of the old fashioned caboose, than of a Franklin stove.
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rail-transportrailwaystransportThe last car on a freight train, consisting of cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
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slangThe buttocks.
- That's a pretty big caboose for a baby.
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slanghobbieslifestylesportsThe person or team in last place.
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informalA youngest child who is born after a long gap in time.
- Jimmy was seven and had just finished first grade, so that made Nancy our caboose baby — our bonus child — our swan song.
- "Caboose" children, the late-born last offspring in the family, didn't suffer from this as much.
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。