核心畫面

You can picture one person standing at the wheel of a small boat. Everyone else on board is working, but that one decides: whether to go out, which way to turn, when to come back. Every use in this group is that same figure moved somewhere else — onto a pitch, into an office, into a police station — and then turned into a verb for doing the job.

「skipper」可以想成小船上握著舵的那一個人。船上其他人都在做事,但要不要出海、往哪邊轉、什麼時候回來,是他決定更多收起「skipper」可以想成小船上握著舵的那一個人。船上其他人都在做事,但要不要出海、往哪邊轉、什麼時候回來,是他決定的。這一組的每個用法,都是同一個身影換了地方:搬到球場上、搬進辦公室、搬進警局;最後再把這個身分當成動作用,變成動詞。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records skipper from Middle English skippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch schipper, from Old Dutch *skipari — built on the word for ship, and a piecewise doublet of shipper. The ship is inside the word itself, which is why the boat sense reads as the home of the group.

來源資料記載 skipper 來自中古英文 skippere,借自中古荷蘭文 schipper,再往上到古荷蘭文 *skipāri;字根就是「船」,和英文 shipper 算是同源的雙生字。船就藏在字裡面,所以這一組會以船上的那個意思為家。

Wiktionary entry for skipper, etymology 1, supplied in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:782559837)

One branch

作主的那個人

這一支全部圍著同一個問題:這裡誰說了算。地點從船換到球場、換到辦公室,角色不變。

noun · B2

The person in charge of a ship or boat, who makes the decisions on board and is responsible for everyone on it.

船長

原始詞典資料17 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。

Skippername

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A male given name.

skippernoun詞源 1/ˈskɪp.ə/

  • 1

    nauticaltransportThe master of a ship.

    • The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
    • It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous.
  • 2

    A coach, director, or other leader.

  • 3

    hobbieslifestylesportsThe captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.

    • But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool
  • 4

    informalgovernmentlaw-enforcementSynonym of detective sergeant, especially as a term of direct address.

skipperverb詞源 1/ˈskɪp.ə/

  • 1

    To captain a ship or a sports team.

    • Tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license

skippernoun詞源 2/ˈskɪp.ə/

  • 1

    A person who skips, or fails to attend class.

  • 2

    hobbieslifestylesportsOne who jumps rope.

  • 3

    Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.

    • Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]
  • 4

    Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira (Pacific saury) and Sprattus sprattus (European sprat).

  • 5

    obsoleteA young, thoughtless person.

    • Skipper, stand back; 'tis age that nourisheth
  • 6

    The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.

skippernoun詞源 3/ˈskɪp.ə/

  • 1

    A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.

skipperverb詞源 3/ˈskɪp.ə/

  • 1

    To take shelter in a barn or shed.

skippernoun詞源 4/ˈskɪp.ə/

  • 1

    A short-sleeved (or long-sleeved) tee-shirt, or sweatshirt.

    • Plain nylon doeks...Men's knitted skippers, long sleeves, three buttons in front.
    • The special constables..were issued with one pair of boots, two overalls, one raincoat, and two skippers — but no shirts or warm coats.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。