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    A skycap is someone at an airport whose job is to carry passengers' bags — from the car to the check-in desk, or off the belt and out to the taxi. The word is mainly American. The 'cap' comes from the cap these porters used to wear, and 'sky' points to the air, meaning the airport. The job title was modelled on the older railroad porter called a redcap, who wore a red hat at train stations. Though actually you hear skycap less than you used to, because so many now pull their own cases. It names the worker, not a hat, and it is a fairly plain job word, not slang and not formal legal language.

    機場行李搬運員(美式說法;台灣較常直接說行李員)

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組成sky + cap, modelled on redcap (a railroad porter in a red cap). sky points to the air / the airport; cap is the hat the porter wore.

同家族的字

  • redcapthe railroad porter this airport job was named after
  • skythe first half, pointing to the air / airport
  • capthe second half — from the cap in the uniform

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。

skycapnoun

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    A porter at an airport.

    • JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。