lumber

• vi. 伐木；喧闹地向前走；笨重地行动，缓慢地移动
• vt. 砍伐木材；乱堆
• n. 木材；废物，无用的杂物；隆隆声

来自lame,跛的，-er,表反复，引申词义吃力的走。木材义词源不详，可能来自timber,字母t,l音变，比较language,tongue,并由木材引申词义大件物品等。

1. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

2. an implement used in baseball by the batter

lumber

lumber: [14] Swedish has a dialectal verb loma ‘move heavily’, which is the only clue we have to the antecedents of the otherwise mysterious English verb lumber. The noun, too, which first appears in the 16th century, is difficult to account for. In the absence of any other convincing candidates, it is presumed to have been derived from the verb (its earliest recorded sense is ‘useless or inconvenient articles’, plausibly close to the verb; ‘cut timber’ did not emerge until the 17th century, in North America).

lumber (n.)

"timber sawn into rough planks," 1660s, American English (Massachusetts), earlier "disused bit of furniture; heavy, useless objects" (1550s), probably from lumber (v.), perhaps influenced by Lombard, from the Italian immigrants famous as pawnbrokers and money-lenders in England (see Lombard). Lumbar, Lumbard were old alternative forms of Lombard in English. The evolution of sense then would be because a lumber-house ("pawn shop") naturally accumulates odds and ends of furniture.

Live Lumber, soldiers or passengers on board a ship are so called by the sailors. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785]

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LUMBER HOUSE. A house appropriated by thieves for the reception of their stolen property. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]

lumber (v.)

"to move clumsily," c. 1300, lomere, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Swedish loma "move slowly, walk heavily," Old Norse lami "lame"), ultimately cognate with lame (adj.). Related: Lumbered; lumbering.

lumber, timber, wood, log

这些名词均有"木材，木"之意。

lumber： 指伐下后未经削磨的木材，现多用于美国英语中。

timber： 指经过匠人初步加要的备用木材，多用于英国英语。

wood： 最普通用词，含义广，除表示"木材，木"外，还可用复数形式表示森林。

log： 指原木或圆木。

Here was abundant fuel and lumber.

出自-2015年考研翻译原文

The strategy also aims to ensure that carbon in woody material removed from the forests is locked away in the form of solid lumber or burned as biofuel in vehicles that would otherwise run on fossil fuels.

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

a lumber room (= for storing lumber in)

杂物贮藏室

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

It was made of soft lumber, spruce by the look of it...

其制作材料是软木，看起来像是云杉。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He was going to have to purchase all his lumber at full retail price.

他将不得不把所有木材按零售价分文不少地买下来。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He turned and lumbered back to his chair...

他转过身来，蹒跚着走回到椅子边坐下。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The truck lumbered across the parking lot toward the road...

卡车隆隆地驶过停车场准备上路。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Again, after the lumber has been separated, the grader assigns a grade.

木材分开后, 分级工再次标记等级.

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With these difficulties Hugh didn't get into town to sell the lumber for days on end.

因为这些困难,休一连数日未能进城去推销木材.

飘（部分）

Industry: petroleum extraction, cement, lumber, brewing, sugar, palm oil, soap.

工业: 原油提炼, 水泥, 木材, 酿造, 糖, 棕榈油, 肥皂.

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I was moving logs and will cut into lumber.

我移动日志,并且切开成木材.

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This lumber is seasoned for several years.

这种木柴已经风干好几年了.

辞典例句

Exports: crude oil and petroleum products, lumber, cacao, aluminum.

出口: 重油及原油产品, 木材, 可可, 铝.

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Lumber did not work, mud go up, calm meeting presses a turn.

木材没干, 把泥抹上去, 定会压弯.

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Lumber , Teak Rosewood , Kwila , Merbau, Masawa, Timber, Timber Products and Plank.

采购产品木材, 柚木, 紫檀, 木材, 木材产品和厚木板.

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The five vertebrae next to the lumber vertebrae are fused together to form the sacrum.

在腰椎下是五个椎骨融合在一起形成的骶骨.

辞典例句

Every M 3 already exceeded 3000 dollars on ginkgo lumber international market.

银杏木材国际市场上每m3已超过3000美元.

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He leads the nation in lumber production.

他领导国民生产木材.

辞典例句

Iron mined in order to topple trees for lumber.

开采铁矿则是为了砍伐树木以获取木材.

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It is set with complete professional therapeutic equipment for cervical and lumber vertebral diseases.

配备先进齐全的专用颈、腰椎疾病的治疗设备.

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Rhett, I can keep the lumber business too, can't I?

瑞德, 我还能留下那个木材工厂, 可以 吗 ?

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Objective To assess the effect of comprehensive treatment for lumber disk herniation ( LDH ) by stages .

目的:评价 分期 治疗对腰椎间盘突出 症 的疗效.

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The truck was sent to carry lumber.

卡车被派出去运木材.

《简明英汉词典》

Lumber by: improving cultural construction, speed up infrastructure construction speed.

制材所: 提高建筑文化, 加快设施的建设速度.

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Lumber production and total production occurred in predictable ratios to one another.

因为木材生产量与总产量之间出现了可预测的比例关系.

辞典例句

The carpenter trimmed the lumber with a plane.

木匠用刨子把木刨平.

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Board lumber is graded by evaluating the better face of the board.

板材根据较好的表面来评估分级.

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Forested areas have been expanding every year, with the increase in standing timber greater than that of felled lumber.

森林面积每年都在增加,林木生长量大于消耗量.

《简明英汉词典》

The production of lumber, treatment and authority are not put.

木材的生产 、 加工和销售权不放.

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