handyman

英 ['hændɪmæn]美 ['hændɪmæn]
  • n. 手巧的人；[劳经] 杂务工；水手
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中文词源

handyman 杂活工

比喻用法。

英文词源

handyman (n.)
also handy-man, "man employed to do various types of work," by 1843, from handy + man (n.). Gradually developed from the sense of "man who is capable at all sorts of work."
A handy man is so practised in the regulation of the little utilities of the house he inhabits, that by a slight touch here and there--a screw turned here and a screw loosened there, and a nail driven in time--he keeps all working smoothly, and averts those domestic catastrophes and break-downs of which Punch makes so much capital in his pictures. [Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Arthur's Home Magazine, August 1869]

双语例句

1. They started me off in the gardens as a handyman. Digging, forking manure, that kind of thing.
他们让我先在园子里干些杂活，挖土、叉粪肥之类的。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He is an invaluable handyman to have about the place.
他是这一带非常可贵的巧手.
来自辞典例句
3. So you're a handyman and a fugitive architect?
这么说你是个开锁匠,和逃亡建筑师?
来自电影对白
4. Anyway , are you going to get a handyman to install this stuff?
你要找人帮忙安装这些东西 吗 ?
来自互联网
5. Hugh was leading a catch - as - catch - can life , working as an itinerant handyman.
休靠当流动临时工凑合着过活.
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