核心畫面
Picture someone by a flower bed with soil on their hands — pulling weeds, cutting back, watering. The word names the person doing that, and English does not decide for you whether they are paid for it. The same word covers the man who comes on Thursdays and the neighbour who spends every weekend among her tomatoes.
可以想成：有個人蹲在花圃邊，手上沾著土——拔草、修剪、澆水。gardener 指的就是做這件事的人，而英文並不替你決…更多收起
可以想成：有個人蹲在花圃邊，手上沾著土——拔草、修剪、澆水。gardener 指的就是做這件事的人，而英文並不替你決定他有沒有領錢。每週四來的那位師傅，和整個週末都待在番茄叢裡的鄰居，用的是同一個字。原始詞典資料3 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。
Gardenername/ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/
- 1
A surname originating as an occupation.
gardenernoun/ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/
- 1
One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
- "Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena
- At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
- 2
derogatoryobsoleteslangA coachman who drives badly.
- Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman.
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。