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Someone whose job was to drive a cart — a wooden wagon pulled by a horse — and carry goods from place to place. This was everyday work before trucks and vans. You will find it in history and in old stories, not on a modern job list. Though actually, you will meet Carter far more often as a family name. In England the name usually came from the job: an drove a cart. In Ireland, some people named Carter got the name another way, from Irish Mac Artúir, “son of Arthur.” So the surname is not always the occupation in disguise, even when it looks like it.
運貨馬車夫（舊時趕馬車運貨的人；也是常見英文姓 Carter）
組成cart + -er (a person who works with a cart). From Middle English carter. It also mixed with Anglo-Norman careter, a coachman (compare French charretier). As a name: the English surname from the job; some Irish Carters from Mac Artúir, “son of Arthur.”
原始詞典資料15 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。
Cartername/ˈkɑɹtɚ/
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A surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a carter.
- In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.
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A surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a carter.
- In September 2019, Carter warned Americans against reelecting Trump. […] In April 2021, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited the Carters at their home in Plains, after the former presidential couple was unable to travel to Washington for the 46th president’s inauguration.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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carternoun/ˈkɑɹtɚ/
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A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
- They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.
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A fish, the whiff or Marysole.
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。