1. 1n/ˈkuːpər/ · /ˈkuːpə/箍桶匠

    A worker who makes and fixes wooden barrels and buckets.

    「cooper」可以想成「做木桶的老師傅」——把一片片木板圍成圓桶,再用鐵環箍緊。這是很老的手工職業,以前用來裝酒、裝水、裝穀子。現在很少見,多半出現在歷史故事或酒莊裡。

    示範例句 · Example

    Long ago, the village cooper made strong barrels for storing rice and water.

    中文翻譯很久以前,村裡的箍桶匠做出堅固的木桶來儲存米和水。

    常見搭配

    • the village cooper

      村裡的箍桶匠

      the barrel-maker in a village

      The village cooper worked near the river.

    • a skilled cooper

      技術好的箍桶匠

      a cooper who is very good at the craft

      A skilled cooper can make a barrel in a day.

    意思相近

    barrel-makercask-maker

core核心畫面

Picture a workshop full of curved wooden staves and metal hoops. A cooper is the who fits those staves into a tight ring and bands them with a hoop, so the finished barrel or bucket holds water without leaking a drop.

可以想成:一間堆滿彎木片和鐵箍的作坊,箍桶匠就是那個把一片片彎木圍成一圈、再用鐵箍箍緊的師傅,讓做好的木桶、水桶裝了水也一滴不漏。

同家族的字

  • 名詞cooperage

coopers

意思相近

barrel-makercask-maker

原始詞典資料22 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。

Coopername/ˈkupɚ/

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    An English surname originating as an occupation of cooper.

    • The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches, Pomfrets, Coopers, and many other noble families.
    • On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.
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    A male given name transferred from the surname.

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coopernoun詞源 1/ˈkuːpə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.

    • They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
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    obsoleteA drink of half stout and half porter.

cooperverb詞源 1/ˈkuːpə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    archaicTo make and repair barrels etc.

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    obsoleteslangTo forge or imitate (writing).

    • […] though, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be "a duffer at coopering a monekur."
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    obsoleteslangTo intentionally injure (a racehorse) to spoil its chances of winning.

    • Every design that villainy could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended 'coopering', even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • Cooper County
  • coper

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