wrecker
英 ['rek?]
美['r?k?]
- n. 使船失事的人，肇事者；失事現場清理人；打撈船
詞態變化
復數:?wreckers;
英文詞源
- wrecker (n.)
- 1804, in reference to those who salvage cargos from wrecked ships, from wreck (n.). In Britain often with a overtones of "one who causes a shipwreck in order to plunder it" (1820); but in 19c. Bahamas and the Florida Keys it could be a legal occupation. Applied to those who wreck and plunder institutions from 1882. Meaning "demolition worker" attested by 1958. As a type of ship employed in salvage operations, from 1789. As a railway vehicle with a crane or hoist, from 1904.
雙語例句
- 1. The wrecker moved the wrecked cars to a safe place.
- 清障車將馬路上停放的病車拖到了安全地點.
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- 2. If you date him, you will be a home wrecker.
- 你要是和他約會, 就會成別人家庭的破壞者.
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