| 单词 | van boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvan boy van boy n. originally and chiefly British (originally) a boy who works on the van of a train; (usually) a boy who works on a delivery van or lorry; cf. van man n.Van boys were strongly associated, esp. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with petty criminality. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who loads or unloads trimmer1836 van boy1854 1854 Manch. Examiner & Times 2 Sept. 5/4 Mr. Ross, Robert Hart (the van-boy), and Richard Marshall (the guard), were called as witnesses. 1867 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 June 9/1 Henry West, seventeen, a van boy, and Thomas Plows, thirteen, a sawyer, were charged, on remand, with picking pockets, in St. Paul's-churchyard. 1904 J. G. Cloete in E. J. Urwick Stud. Boy Life in Our Cities 130 Many, no doubt, become van-boys because they really are not fit to undertake any more intelligent form of work; others are attracted by the very roughness of the life, which, in their ignorance, they regard as freedom. 2016 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 15 Jan. 10 (headline) ‘Van boy’ turned property tycoon shares the secrets of his success. < as lemmas |
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