lumber
lumber 英 [ˈlʌmbə(r)] 美 [ˈlʌmbɚ]
vi. 使负担；笨重地移动 n. 木材，无用的杂物
进行时:lumbering 过去式:lumbered 过去分词:lumbered 第三人称单数:lumbers 名词复数:lumbers
- Do you move clumsily, heavily and slowly, without a shred of grace? Then it sounds like you might lumber. Sorry to hear that.
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- vi. 使负担；笨重地移动
- n. 木材，无用的杂物
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1. a lumber room (= for storing lumberin)
杂物贮藏室
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2. A family of elephants lumbered by.
一群大象迈着缓慢而沉重的步子从旁边经过。
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3. When our parents went out, my sister got lumbered with me for the evening.
父母外出时，晚上姐姐就得照管我。
- lumber (n.) "timber sawn into rough planks for use," 1660s, American English (Massachusetts), earlier "disused bit of furniture; heavy, useless objects" (1550s), of uncertain origin. It is said to be probably from lumber (v.1) on the notion of "awkward to move," and perhaps to have been influenced by or associated with Lombard (q.v.), the Italian immigrant class famous as pawnbrokers (and money-lenders) in old England. Lumbar and Lumbard were old alternative forms of Lombard in English.
- lumber (v.1) "to move clumsily," c. 1300, lomere, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Swedish loma "move slowly, walk heavily," Old Norse lami "lame"), which is perhaps from PIE root *lem- "break in pieces," with derivatives meaning "crippled," and ultimately cognate with lame (adj.). "Possibly two or more words may have coalesced" [OED]. With unetymological -b- as in humble, nimble, etc. Related: Lumbered; lumbering; lumbersome.
- lumber (v.2) "cut forest trees," 1809, American English, from lumber (n.). Related: Lumbered; lumbering.
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