lighter
/ˈlaɪtə(r)/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈlaɪtər/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈlī-tər/ (ame, mw)
lighter — 名詞
- lightersingular
- lightersplural
1. a small object you carry in your hand that makes a small flame, used most often
打火機
點火用的小型手持裝置
a small object you carry in your hand that makes a small flame, used most often to light cigarettes, candles, or a barbecue.
Ezra clicked his lighter twice before the flame caught and lit the candle.
Ezra 按了兩下打火機，火苗才終於冒出來，點燃了蠟燭。
click + lighter for the action of using one
The shop sells cheap plastic lighters for two dollars each near the counter.
那間店在櫃台旁邊賣便宜的塑膠打火機，一個只要兩美元。
plastic lighter / cheap lighter common collocations
Aoi keeps a small silver lighter in her handbag for lighting birthday candles.
Aoi 在手提包裡放了一個小巧的銀色打火機，方便點生日蠟燭。
Airport security took away Andrés's lighter before he could board the plane.
機場安檢人員在 Andrés 登機前沒收了他的打火機。
Could I borrow a lighter? Mine has run out of fuel again.
可以借我打火機嗎？我的又沒瓦斯了。
- cigarette lighter
the full form; used when the type needs to be clear
- Zippo
brand name often used generically for a refillable metal lighter
文法句型
use a lighter to light something
用法筆記
Almost always countable; speakers say 'a lighter' or 'the lighter' rather than uncountable 'lighter'. Common everyday item, so the word appears in casual speech far more often than in formal writing.
常見錯誤
2. a wide, flat boat with no engine of its own, towed across the calm water of a po
平底駁船
港內運貨用的無動力平底船
a wide, flat boat with no engine of its own, towed across the calm water of a port to move heavy cargo between big ships and the dock.
Two lighters loaded with grain were towed slowly from the ship toward the dock.
兩艘載著穀物的駁船被慢慢地從大船拖向碼頭。
passive: lighter + loaded with + cargo
The harbour used wooden lighters to bring cotton from cargo ships to the warehouse.
這座港口以前用木造駁船把棉花從貨輪運到倉庫。
harbour / port + lighter typical setting
Élise watched a row of empty lighters drift back toward the eastern side of the bay.
Élise 看著一排空駁船緩緩漂回海灣的東側。
Before deep-water docks were built, every box of tea reached London on a lighter.
在深水碼頭蓋好之前，運到倫敦的每一箱茶葉都是靠駁船送上岸的。
文法句型
lighter + carrying / loaded with + goods
用法筆記
Specialist port-and-shipping term; rarely heard outside maritime, historical, or trade contexts. Distinguish from sense 1 (the lighting device) by surrounding words about ships, docks, or cargo.
lighter — 動詞
- lighterpresent simple I / you / we / they
- lighters3rd person singular
- lightering-ing form
- lighteredpast simple
1. to carry boxes, sacks, or other cargo across the water of a port using a flat ba
以駁船載運
用平底駁船在港內運送貨物
to carry boxes, sacks, or other cargo across the water of a port using a flat barge, often between a large ship and the shore.
Workers lightered the crates of tea from the anchored ship to the dock at dawn.
工人們在黎明時用駁船把茶葉箱從停泊的大船運到了碼頭。
lighter + cargo + from / to construction
Coal was lightered ashore each morning before the trains arrived to collect it.
煤炭每天清晨會先用駁船運上岸，等火車來載走。
passive: be lightered + ashore / to + place
The company lightered timber across the harbour for nearly fifty years.
這家公司以駁船在港內運送木材長達將近五十年。
Amihan watched the dockworkers lighter heavy sacks of rice toward the warehouse.
Amihan 看著碼頭工人用駁船把一袋袋沉重的米運往倉庫。
文法句型
lighter + [cargo] + from / to + [place]
用法筆記
Highly specialist verb almost only seen in maritime, historical, or trade writing. Frequently passive ('was lightered to shore') because the focus is on the cargo, not the workers. Subject is usually a company, a crew, or workers.