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/ˈsmoʊkər/ · /ˈsməʊkə/
Someone who smokes cigarettes, cigars, or a pipe, usually as a habit rather than just once or twice.
吸菸者；抽菸的人
複數 smokers
核心畫面
smoke + -er, but the -er here means a habit, not a moment: someone for whom smoking is a standing part of life, not something they did once.
smoke（抽菸）這個動作 ＋ -er（做這件事的人），但重點在於：中文說「抽菸的人」時可能只是描述當下，英文的 s…更多收起
smoke（抽菸）這個動作 ＋ -er（做這件事的人），但重點在於：中文說「抽菸的人」時可能只是描述當下，英文的 smoker 卻幾乎都指向一種身分。想像有人問「Are you a smoker?」——他問的不是你此刻手上有沒有菸，而是這件事在你的生活裡是不是一個固定的位置：口袋裡常備一包、飯後會走出去、班機上會不舒服。一種想法是，-er 在這裡把一個動作壓縮成一個長期的標籤。原始詞典資料15 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。
Smokername
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A surname.
smokernoun/ˈsmoʊkɚ/
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A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
- Even though I don't smoke, I'm not one of those fanatics you run into. In fact, I love watching cigarette smokers in their sad little sealed-off areas, sucking away, deep lines in their faces, precancerous lesions taking hold, the posture and body language of petty criminals. You know what you do with these people? Give 'em free cigarettes. Let 'em smoke. Offer them a light!
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Someone who smokes (something).
- a water pipe smoker
- a smoker of cannabis
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A smoking car on a train.
- We had all got into a first-class smoker, and he had already lit the short and charred old briar pipe which seemed to singe the end of his long, aggressive nose.
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datedinformalAn informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.
- A smoker at which prizes were distributed was held at the Hotel Victory […]
- One of the most unique athletic programs given in Tacoma for a long time, and which should furnish rare fun for the spectators, is scheduled for the smoker given tonight by company A, Second infantry regiment, N. G. W., at the company drill hall, South Twelfth and A streets.
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datedinformalA social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.
- All grins and tuxes at some charity smoker in a city-centre hotel.
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A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
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slangAn illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).
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A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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A person or an apparatus that smokes food.
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slangA two-stroke engine.
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slangAny vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.
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informalball-gamesbaseballgamesA fastball.
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slangSynonym of stag film.
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A tobacco pipe that produces smoke well when used.
- Cripps selected from his store a battered pipe that looked as if it had been dug up with a corpse, and smelt worse than it looked, which he handed tenderly to the curate, with an air of conferring on him a sacred trust. "It's a beautiful smoker," he assured the curate, but the curate had still a saving remnant of caution left him.
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。