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A nailgun is a power tool that drives nails into wood (and sometimes other materials) in one fast push, so the worker does not have to swing a hammer again and again. You hold it against the wood and pull the trigger, and the nail goes in instantly. Most nailguns on building sites run on compressed air from a hose and a compressor, which is why people describe them as air-powered, but there are also electric ones, battery ones, and gas ones. Carpenters, roofers and builders use them because they are far faster than a hammer over a whole day's work. The word is written nailgun or nail gun; both spellings are common. It is a plain, practical word — the language of workshops and building sites rather than of books. It is countable: a nailgun, two nailguns. Because it is fast and strong, it is also a genuinely dangerous tool, and you will often meet the word in safety warnings and in news stories about accidents.
釘槍(氣動釘槍)
組成nail (釘子) + gun (槍)。這裡的 gun 不是真的武器,而是「用扳機把東西快速射出去的工具」,像 glue gun(熱熔膠槍)一樣。
同家族的字
- glue gunthe same use of gun — a trigger tool that shoots something out
- spray gunthe same use of gun, for paint
- staple gunthe same use of gun, for staples instead of nails
原始詞典資料1 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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。