喜樂美語
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    A helmsman is the person who steers a ship or boat — hands on the helm, which is the wheel or the . The helmsman is not always the captain. The captain decides where the ship should go; the helmsman keeps it on that path. It is a sea word, a little formal, still used on real boats and in stories. Though actually English stretches at the helm to mean “in charge” of a company, but helmsman itself usually stays with the boat.

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組成helm + -s- + man. Helm is the steering gear of a ship. The -s- is a linking sound. Man here means the person doing the job (the word man is very old, from Old English mann).

同家族的字

  • helmthe wheel or tiller that steers a ship
  • manthe person doing the job

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。

helmsmannoun/ˈhɛlmz.mən/

  • 1

    A member of a ship's crew who is responsible for steering.

  • 2

    A leader.

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。