在外面住下來的人
這一支就是核心畫面本身：一個人離開家，在別的地方住一段時間，那個人就叫 camper。
noun · A2
Someone who is staying in a tent or another simple shelter, usually outdoors and usually for a short time.
露營的人
核心畫面
You can think of camper as coming from one simple picture: someone stops in a place that is not their home, puts their things down, and stays there for a while. The word is camp plus -er, so it can name the one who does that — the person asleep in a tent by the river — or the thing that lets them do it, a small home on wheels with a bed and a stove inside. Two more uses borrow only the staying part: the player who picks one corner of a game map and never moves, and the customer whose table has quietly become home for the afternoon.
camper 可以想成一個很簡單的畫面：一個人在不是家的地方停下來，把東西放下，就這樣住一段時間。這個字是 camp…更多收起
camper 可以想成一個很簡單的畫面：一個人在不是家的地方停下來，把東西放下，就這樣住一段時間。這個字是 camp 加上 -er。所以它既能指做這件事的人，也就是河邊帳篷裡睡著的那位；也能指讓人這樣住的東西，一台裡面有床和爐子、可以拖著走的小房間。另外兩個用法只借了「停在那裡不走」這一半：遊戲裡選一個角落就不動的玩家，還有飯吃完卻把桌子坐成自己家的客人。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives camper as camp (verb) plus the agent ending -er, which matches the plain modern picture: the one who camps.
Wiktionary 記載 camper 由動詞 camp 加上 -er 組成，正好對上現在最直接的意思：露營的那個人。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract supplied in packet; source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:562128261:17422): "From camp (verb) + -er."
Four branches
把家帶著走的車
-er 除了「做那件事的人」，也可以是「用來做那件事的東西」。把帳篷換成一個有輪子的房間，名字就跟著搬過去。
noun · B1
In American English, a small home on wheels with beds and cooking equipment inside, which you pull behind a car or truck. Americans also use camper for a small van or truck that has the same things built into the back.
露營拖車／露營車
賴在一個位置不走的人
這一支只借了露營的一半：選一個地方、把東西放下、就地待著。少掉的是戶外和帳篷，留下來的是「不移動」。
noun · B2
In a shooting video game, a player who stays hidden in one safe spot and waits for other players to walk past, instead of moving around the map. Players use the word as a complaint, so it sounds unfair or cowardly.
蹲點玩家
固定說法：a happy camper
這一支不是 camper 自己的意思，而是整句話的意思；它只是把營地裡「沒什麼好抱怨」的畫面借來用。
noun · B2
A happy camper is someone who seems pleased with the situation they are in. It is spoken English, and it is used most often in the negative — not a happy camper — as a light way of saying that someone is annoyed or unhappy about how things are going.
心滿意足的人
原始詞典資料6 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。
Campername
- 1
A surname.
campernoun詞源 1/ˈkæmpɚ/
- 1
A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.
- There were thousands of campers at the music festival.
- They're indispensable for backpackers, campers and anyone else who plans to be away from a power outlet for a while; indeed, both the Solar and the Eco Player are ruggedly built, with rubberized nonscratchable surfaces.
- 2
A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
- The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot.
- 3
derogatoryvideo-gamesA person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.
- 4
slangA person who stays too long at a table after eating.
- I'm trying to get rid of the campers on table seven.
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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。