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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)

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組成From dust + -man. Household refuse used to be mostly ashes (“dust”) from domestic fires.

同家族的字

  • dustthe “ashes and dirt” half — old household waste
  • dustbinthe bin the dustman empties

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。