From the word’s history
From Middle English gardener, calqued or borrowed from Anglo-Norman / Old Northern French gardinier.
源自中古英文 gardener，借自或仿自古諾曼法文 gardinier。
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.
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。
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.
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