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A dustman is someone whose job is to take the rubbish from people's dustbins — the bins outside the house. This is British English. In American English people say garbage collector. Newer British English also uses refuse collector or bin man. The word is dust + man because, a long time ago, household waste was largely ashes and dust from coal and wood at home. Though actually, today's dustman takes far more than dust: food scraps, packaging, the lot. Older people in Britain still say dustman naturally; younger speakers may find it a little old-fashioned, but everyone understands it. It is an ordinary job word, not rude in itself, though the -man ending (like fireman) is something some workplaces now replace with a title that does not mark gender. There is also a German family name Dustmann, spelled that way; that is a different story from the British job.
清潔隊員(英式說法;台灣說清潔隊、收垃圾的)
原始詞典資料2 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。
Dustmanname
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A surname from German.
dustmannoun
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A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
- Oh, my old man's a dustman He wears a dustman’s hat He wears cor-blimey trousers And he lives in a council flat.
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。