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A handyman is a person who does many small, practical jobs in a house: a tap that drips, a shelf that will not stay up, a lock that sticks, a wall that needs paint. You call one when you need real help with your hands, but the job is not big enough — or not specialised enough — for a , an , or a builder on their own.
A handyman is a person who does many small, practical jobs in a house:Handyman是專門處理家裡各種小型實用工作的人： a tap that drips, a shelf that will not stay up, a lock that sticks, a wall that needs paint.像漏水的水龍頭、裝不牢的架子、卡住的鎖，或需要上漆的牆。 You call one when you need real help with your hands,當你需要真正動手幫忙的時候，就會找他， but the job is not big enough — or not specialised enough —但這個工作又還沒大到、或還沒專業到 for a plumber, an electrician, or a builder on their own.需要另外找水電工、電工，或建築工人。
Though actually, a good handyman often does a little of those things too, if the work is simple; the line is messy in real life. The word feels everyday and friendly, the sort of thing you see on a small card in a shop window, not on a government form.
Though actually,不過其實， a good handyman often does a little of those things too, if the work is simple;如果工作不難，好的handyman也常常會順便做一點那些事； the line is messy in real life.現實中界線並沒有那麼清楚。 The word feels everyday and friendly,這個字聽起來很日常、很親切， the sort of thing you see on a small card in a shop window,是那種會出現在店家窗口小卡片上的字， not on a government form.不是政府表格上的用語。
It still usually ends in -man even when a woman does the work. A few people say handyperson; most speakers have not switched.
It still usually ends in -man就算做這件事的是女性， even when a woman does the work.這個字通常還是以-man結尾。 A few people say handyperson;有少數人會說handyperson； most speakers have not switched.但大部分人還沒改口。
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。
handymannoun/ˈhændimæn/
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informalA person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.
- I complained that the heat was not working, and the landlord sent the handyman to fix it.
- There was one thing she wanted; she said to hubby dear, / "The time would pass more quickly if I had a rocking chair." / [...] As Strings is such a handyman, by night the job was done / He took that thing upstairs and said, "Now try this out for fun."
handymanverb/ˈhændimæn/
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informalTo work as a handyman; to do odd jobs.
- Instead I walk, uncertainly across the concrete backyard my father and his friends handymanned into existence so proudly, so that none of us would ever have to play in dirt, in muck, in mud again.
- My daddy worked too hard at Buck's Sporting Goods by day plus handymanning in the evenings, and my mother spent too many hours fixing trays at the meat-and-three for me to act like we had neither pot nor window. Let the record show that we had both.
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。