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A digger, in the sense you are learning here, is a large machine that scoops and moves earth — the kind you see on a building site, with a long arm and a bucket. People also call it an excavator; digger is the plainer word, especially in British and Australian English. Anyone who digs can be a digger too, a person with a shovel, and that older meaning is still alive.
A digger, in the sense you are learning here在你現在學的這個意思裡，digger is a large machine that scoops and moves earth是一種會挖土、搬運泥土的大型機器 — the kind you see on a building site, with a long arm and a bucket——就是你在工地上會看到的那種，有一支長長的手臂和一個鏟斗。People also call it an excavator人們也會叫它excavator（挖土機） digger is the plainer worddigger是比較口語的說法 especially in British and Australian English尤其是在英式和澳式英文裡。Anyone who digs can be a digger too任何在挖東西的人也可以叫digger a person with a shovel就是拿鏟子的人 and that older meaning is still alive這個比較舊的意思現在還在用。
Though actually, in Australia the word has a proud extra life: Digger became a warm name for an Australian soldier, especially from the First World War, when men spent so much time digging trenches. Earlier still, on the , a digger was a miner — one of the mates sharing the same hard work. Those uses are cultural and worth knowing if you read Australian English.
Though actually不過其實 in Australia the word has a proud extra life在澳洲這個字還有一段值得驕傲的額外生命 : Digger became a warm name for an Australian soldier：Digger後來變成澳洲軍人的一個親切稱呼 especially from the First World War尤其是指第一次世界大戰時的軍人 when men spent so much time digging trenches因為那時候的人花了很多時間在挖戰壕。Earlier still, on the goldfields更早之前，在淘金場上 a digger was a minerdigger指的是礦工 — one of the mates sharing the same hard work——一起分擔同樣辛苦工作的夥伴。Those uses are cultural and worth knowing這些用法帶有文化色彩，值得知道 if you read Australian English如果你在讀澳式英文。
This entry is filed against the machine.
This entry is filed against the machine這個條目講的是那台機器的意思。
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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。
Diggernoun詞源 1/ˈdɪɡɚ/
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A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
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historicalOne of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.
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derogatoryobsoleteOne of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.
Diggernoun詞源 2/ˈdɪɡɚ/
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A user of the American news aggregator Digg.
- THANKS TO DIGG, the Web’s most frequented news-ranking site, we now know: Geeks like gaming gossip, incendiary technology policy stories, and NASA photos. Diggers vote early and often, and can get breaking news to the front page surprisingly quickly.
- Redditors are similar to Diggers (twentysomething geeks), albeit the former are slightly more educated and gender neutral.
diggernoun/ˈdɪɡɚ/
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A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
- The cables are placed from 16 in. to 2 ft. down, and to save time and labour use was made of a mechanical digger lent by the Swedish State Railways.
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A tool for digging.
- The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn′t dug any holes for a long, long time.
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slangA spade (playing card).
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One who digs.
- You′ve tried the supposedly sure method of squirting the digger with water from a hose, and that hasn′t worked.[…]This step will discourage 99 percent of the diggers.
- Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that′s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.
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obsoleteA gold miner, one who digs for gold.
- A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” − came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.
- Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would remind me that the ubiquitous digger had been there first.
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informalAn Australian soldier.
- Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.
- For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.
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dateda friendly term of address, especially to a man.
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vulgaroffensiveslurdatedslangA member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians.
- White men are not usually hanged for killing Chinamen, but Indians who commit such a crime are strung up with little ceremony. Last week a Digger was hung at Jackson, Amador county, for having last summer murdered some Chinamen at Rancheria.
- From what we could see and all we could learn, they are very considerably inferior to even the despised Digger Indians of California; inferior to all races of savages on our continent; inferior to even the Terra del Fuegans; inferior to the Hottentots, and actually inferior in some respects to the Kytches of Africa.
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。