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A lumberjack is a person whose job is cutting down trees so the wood can be used. The picture many people have — a strong worker in a checked shirt, with an axe or a chainsaw, in Canada or the northern United States — is not an accident: the word is of Canadian origin. Today the work is often called logging, and the person a , but lumberjack is the word stories, songs, and cartoons still love, so it can feel colourful or a little old-fashioned rather than like a title on a modern contract. In American English the wood itself is lumber; British English more often says timber for the same idea. There is a rare verb to lumberjack, meaning to do that work.
組成From lumber (wood cut from trees, especially North American) + jack (an old way to mean a man who does a job). Canadian origin.
同家族的字
- lumberhere lumber means wood cut from trees, especially in North American English
- jackjack is an old way to mean a working man, as in steeplejack
- lumbermanshares lumber; lumberman leans more toward the timber trade as a business
- steeplejackthe same jack, “a man who does this job”
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。
lumberjacknoun/ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/
- 1
A person whose work is to fell trees.
- He's a lumberjack and he's OK / He sleeps all night and works all day / I cut down trees, I eat my lunch / I go to the lavatory
- 2
A lumberjacket.
lumberjackverb/ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/
- 1
To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
- Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer.
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