handyman

• n. 手巧的人；[劳经] 杂务工；水手

比喻用法。

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]

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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