- 1吃⋯的人（大胃王、偏食的人這類）
An eater is a person (or sometimes an animal) looked at through how they eat. We almost never say “an eater” alone; we add a word in front: a big eater eats a lot, a small eater or light eater eats little, a eater will only eat certain things, a meat-eater eats meat. So the word is a label for a habit, not a job. It is eat + -er, the “person who does this” ending, going back to Old English etere. You will hear it in family talk (“She’s a really eater”) and in compounds like plant-eater. Though actually, calling someone “a big eater” is usually fond or factual, not rude — unless the tone is .
From the word’s history
From Middle English eter, from Old English etere; eat + -er.
源自古英文 etere，就是 eat 加上 -er。
組成eat + -er（做這件事的人）。源於古英語 etere。
同家族的字
- eatthe verb this is built from
原始詞典資料3 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。
eaternoun/ˈiː.tɚ/
- 1
A person or animal who eats.
- a very fussy eater
- "He is the right sort of man for a labourer, but he is a terrible eater, to be sure," thought the farmer.
- 2
A fruit or other food that is suitable for eating, especially one that is intended to be eaten uncooked.
- The bass is a fine eater.
- For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.
- 3
cellular-automatacomputingengineeringA configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.
- But there are many queen bee configurations in which the debris is neutralized, including placement of a block or eater near the bee's turnaround point, or placing two queen bees in a line or at right angles in various positions and phases.
- The eater can also destroy a snail, but changes its phase while doing so.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。