| 单词 | plumber |
| 释义 | Related topics: Occupations, Buildingsplumb·er /ˈplʌmə $ -ər/ ●●○ noun [countable] BOTBBsomeone whose job is to repair water pipes, baths, toilets etc 管子工，水暖工，铅管工Examples from the Corpusplumber• Given a choice between the man of your dreams and a plumber, choose the latter.• Who does the decorating, organises builders, plumbers, electricians?• Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item, so an order would have gone out to a local plumber.• If Bill Wyman had been a 47-year-old plumber who seduced her daughter, Patsy Smith would have screamed to the police.• But the plumber she called when the toilet kept plugging up sometimes found plastic baggies in it.• The plumbers of the Internet keep cleaning up.Origin plumber (1300-1400) Old French plommier “worker in lead”, from Latin plumbarius, from plumbus “lead”; because water pipes were originally made of leadplumb·er nounChineseSyllable pipes, baths, whose water to job repair is someone Corpus toilets etc |
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