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单词 lumber
释义
lumber1 verblumber2 noun
lumberlum‧ber1 /ˈlʌmbə $ -ər/ verb Word Origin
WORD ORIGINlumber1
Origin:
1 1300-1400 Perhaps from a Scandinavian language. 2-3 1800-1900 LUMBER2
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
lumber
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theylumber
he, she, itlumbers
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theylumbered
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave lumbered
he, she, ithas lumbered
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad lumbered
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill lumber
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have lumbered
Continuous Form
PresentIam lumbering
he, she, itis lumbering
you, we, theyare lumbering
PastI, he, she, itwas lumbering
you, we, theywere lumbering
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been lumbering
he, she, ithas been lumbering
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been lumbering
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be lumbering
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been lumbering
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Djindjic told a rally at Republic Square that Milosevic was trying to lumber the police with responsibility for failed government policy.
  • I was lumbered with one hairstyle and that's the way it would stay.
  • Instead of proceeding at his normal brisk trot, he lumbered up the step-ladder and heaved himself ponderously inside the machine's cabin.
  • She lumbered out of bed, reached for the too recently removed dressing-gown and took herself off to her bathroom.
  • The Red Flag taxi lumbered off into the night.
  • Two Hearthwares, huge in their armour, lumbered over to join in the fray.
  • We chat about the lumbering, and the latest antics at Mount Blue, in my neck of the woods.
  • With that, he stood and slowly lumbered his way down the patch.
word sets
WORD SETS
afforestation, noundeforestation, nounfir, nounfirebreak, nounforested, adjectiveforester, noungrove, noungum, nounhardwood, nounjungle, nounlog, verblogger, nounlogging, nounlogjam, nounlumber, verblumber, nounlumberjack, nounlumberman, nounlumbermill, nounlumberyard, nounpine, nounplantation, nounreforestation, nounsapling, nounspruce, nounwoodcutter, nounwoodsman, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 A career was less easy once I was lumbered with a husband and children.
1[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to move in a slow awkward waylumber up/towards/into/along etc They lumbered along slowly. A blue bus lumbered past.2[transitive] informal to give someone a job or responsibility that they do not wantget/be lumbered with something A career was less easy once I was lumbered with a husband and children.3[intransitive] American English to cut down trees in a large area and prepare them to be sold
lumber1 verblumber2 noun
lumberlumber2 noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINlumber2
Origin:
1600-1700 lumber ‘disused furniture and other objects’ (16-21 centuries), perhaps from lombard ‘shop where money is lent in exchange for objects’ (16-19 centuries)
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Fast-growing forest trees could do more than increase the world's sup ply of lumber and pulp.
  • I love these woods, even as we harvest lumber from them.
  • Only a pile of broken concrete, loose bricks and splintered lumber remained.
word sets
WORD SETS
afforestation, noundeforestation, nounfir, nounfirebreak, nounforested, adjectiveforester, noungrove, noungum, nounhardwood, nounjungle, nounlog, verblogger, nounlogging, nounlogjam, nounlumber, verblumber, nounlumberjack, nounlumberman, nounlumbermill, nounlumberyard, nounpine, nounplantation, nounreforestation, nounsapling, nounspruce, nounwoodcutter, nounwoodsman, noun
1lumber (1)pieces of wood used for building, that have been cut to specific lengths and widths SYN  timber2British English informal large objects that are no longer useful or wanted
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