handyman的意思

handyman

英式音标['hændɪmæn]
美式英标['hændɪmæn]

基本解释

n. 手巧的人；[劳经] 杂务工；水手

handyman 杂活工

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。

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 ?

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.