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Someone whose job is climbing very tall structures — church steeples, factory chimneys, , towers — to repair or paint them or take them down. It is a real trade with a long history, especially in Britain, from the days when every factory had a tall brick chimney that needed pointing and repairing. A steeplejack works high up on ladders and ropes fixed to the outside of the building, which is why the job has a slightly heroic, old-fashioned feel; people say the word with a kind of respect. You will meet it in news stories, local history and old books more often than in modern job lists, because there are not many steeplejacks left. It is one word, no , and it is used for the person of any gender.
高塔修繕工人(專門爬教堂尖塔、工廠煙囪維修的師傅)。中文沒有完全對應的職業名,說明時常講「高空作業/爬煙囪的師傅」
組成steeple (尖塔) + jack. Here 'jack' is an old English way of saying 'ordinary working man' — it started as the common man's name Jack and became a word for a worker or a helpful device. So a steeplejack is simply 'the steeple man'.
同家族的字
- steeplethe tower he climbs
- lumberjacksame 'jack' = working man: the man who cuts timber
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。
steeplejacknoun
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A person whose job involves climbing tall structures like steeples in order to make repairs.
- Whether it's a rigger or steeple jack or window washer or any person who has strong nerves and a skilled body.
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。