喜樂美語
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    /ˈpoʊstmən/ · /ˈpəʊstmən/

    someone whose job is to collect letters and take them to people's homes and workplaces. This is the British word; American English says or mail carrier.

    郵差

    複數 postmen

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can picture the person who carries the day's letters along a street and drops them through each door — the human link between the post office and your home. In Britain this person is a postman; American English usually says or mail carrier.

可以想成那個背著一袋信、沿著街道一家一家把信投進門縫的人——郵局和你家之間那段路，是由他走完的。這是英式說法；美式英…更多收起可以想成那個背著一袋信、沿著街道一家一家把信投進門縫的人——郵局和你家之間那段路，是由他走完的。這是英式說法；美式英語多半講 mailman 或 mail carrier。整個字就是 post（郵件）加上 man，字面上就是「管郵件的人」。

原始詞典資料3 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。

Postmanname

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    A surname.

postmannoun/ˈpəʊs(t)mən/

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    Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.

    • The total of their members amounts to 342,723 for 1875. Among these number … 6,968 male and sixty-three female postmen, imperial railway, telegraph, and post officials, railway workmen, dependent boatmen, waiters, &c.; …
    • A single narrow iron-clamped door formed the only means of entrance. On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat-tat.
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    historicalOne of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sat, the other of the two being the tubman.

    • Postman of the Court of Exchequer.

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。