- 1托運人、出貨商（不是承運人；也不一定走海運）
A shipper is the person or company that sends goods out — the side that has something to move and arranges to send it. books often say “by ship,” and that was the old heart of the word. Though actually, in offices and ports today a shipper may send things by truck, train, or plane as well; people still say they ship the goods. Do not mix this up with the captain (that is a skipper) or with the company that actually carries the goods (that is the carrier). The shipper is the . Younger people online also use shipper for a fan who wants two characters to be a couple; that is a different later word that only looks the same.
組成For this “sender of goods” meaning: either ship + -er (someone who ships), or an old Low German sailor-word related to skipper. It is a close cousin of skipper, which took a different path into English. The fan meaning is a later, separate story, from relationshipper, and does not belong here.
原始詞典資料4 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。
shippernoun詞源 1/ˈʃɪp.ə/
- 1
archaicA seaman; mariner; skipper.
- 2
The person or organization that ships (sends) something.
- The shipper should have paid for insurance on the package, because it was damaged when it arrived.
- 3
A box for shipping something fragile, such as bottled beer or wine.
shippernoun詞源 2/ˈʃɪp.ə/
- 1
slanglifestyleA person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people.
- For creative fans and committed 'shippers^([sic]), fanfiction continues the interaction — the dialogue, the conversation, the story […]
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。