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Someone whose job is cutting down trees, or cutting up wood for burning. The word feels old — it belongs to fairy tales and village life, and the picture it brings up is a man with an axe and a hut at the edge of the forest. In Hansel and Gretel, the children's father is a poor woodcutter. Today the actual job is done with machines by a or a lumberjack (American), or a forestry worker, and hardly anyone is called a woodcutter now. So use it for stories, history and folk tales; for a modern job, use .
樵夫、伐木工人。童話故事裡的那種「樵夫」,現代的伐木工人英文多說 logger 或 lumberjack。
原始詞典資料3 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。
woodcutternoun/ˈwʊdˌkʌtɚ/
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A person who cuts down trees, especially as an occupation; a lumberjack.
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A person who cuts wood.
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A person who makes woodcuts.
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。