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A stoker is a person whose job is to feed a big fire with coal — shovelling it into the furnace of a , a steam train, or a factory boiler. This was a real job for about a hundred years, and it was one of the hardest jobs there was: hot, black with dust, hour after hour of shovelling in a small metal room below deck.
A stoker is a person whose job is to feed a big fire with coalStoker（司爐）指的是負責用煤炭添火的人 shovelling it into the furnace of a steamship, a steam train, or a factory boiler把煤鏟進蒸汽船、蒸汽火車、或工廠鍋爐的爐子裡 This was a real job for about a hundred years這是一份存在了大約一百年的真實工作 and it was one of the hardest jobs there was也是當時最辛苦的工作之一 hot, black with dust, hour after hour of shovelling in a small metal room below deck又熱、滿身煤灰、在甲板下方一個小小的金屬房間裡，一小時接一小時地鏟煤
On ships they were sometimes called firemen, which confuses people today, because 'fireman' now usually means the person who puts OUT. The stoker made the fire, and made it bigger.
On ships they were sometimes called firemen在船上，他們有時候被叫做fireman which confuses people today這讓現代人很困惑 because 'fireman' now usually means the person who puts fires OUT因為'fireman'現在通常指的是把火撲滅的人 The stoker made the fire而司爐做的事，是把火生起來 and made it bigger讓它燒得更旺
Because almost nothing runs on shovelled coal any more, you now meet this word mostly in history books, old novels, and films about the Titanic — not in daily conversation. Note the shape of the word: a stoker is not a person who owns the fire or watches it, but the one doing the physical work of keeping it fed.
Because almost nothing runs on shovelled coal any more因為現在幾乎沒有東西還靠人工鏟煤運轉 you now meet this word mostly in history books, old novels, and films about the Titanic你現在會遇到這個字，大多是在歷史書、舊小說、或鐵達尼號相關的電影裡 not in daily conversation而不是在日常對話中 Note the shape of the word注意這個字的組成方式 a stoker is not a person who owns the fire or watches itstoker指的不是擁有這把火、或只是看著它的人 but the one doing the physical work of keeping it fed而是實際動手把它餵飽、燒下去的那個人
The verb 'stoke' is still alive and is used loosely today for feeding any kind of fire, and also for feeding feelings — you can stoke someone's anger. But 'stoker', the noun, stayed with the old coal job and did not follow the verb into that wider use. So you would not call a person who makes people angry 'a stoker'.
The verb 'stoke' is still alive動詞'stoke'現在還很活躍 and is used loosely today for feeding any kind of fire今天被鬆散地用來形容餵養任何一種火 and also for feeding feelings也用來形容餵養情緒 you can stoke someone's anger你可以說stoke someone's anger（煽動某人的怒氣） But 'stoker', the noun, stayed with the old coal job但名詞'stoker'仍然留在原本鏟煤的舊工作裡 and did not follow the verb into that wider use並沒有跟著動詞一起走進那個更寬廣的用法 So you would not call a person who makes people angry 'a stoker'所以你不會把一個讓別人生氣的人叫做'a stoker'
組成stoke (to feed a fire, poke it) + -er (a person who does it). 'Stoke' came into English from Dutch, from a word meaning to poke or jab — which is exactly what you do to a coal fire with an iron bar.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Stokername
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A surname.
stokernoun/ˈstoʊkɚ/
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A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
- For this was a line so little frequented, especially at this hour, when the driver, the stoker, the guard and the station staffs all along the line, were anhelating towards their wives, after the long hours of continence, that the train would hardly draw up, when it would be off again, like a bouncing ball.
- He held strongly to the black-ganger's philosophy - what is the use of all the radar and guns and torpedoes if you don't have the engineers and stokers to put them in the right position?
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A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
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A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
- As we reported was to occur, two of Saltley's stoker-fitted 2-10-0s, Nos. 92165/7, have been stripped of their stokers at Crewe works.
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A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
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。