a stoker on [a ship/train]
此处 stoker 指人,即负责给锅炉添煤的工人,常见于旧时以煤为燃料的轮船或火车。
The stoker on the old steamship worked in the engine room.
老蒸汽船上的司炉在机舱里工作。
司炉;烧火工人
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司炉;烧火工人
a laborer who tends fires, as on a coal-fired train or steamship
The stoker on the old steamship worked in the engine room.
老蒸汽船上的司炉在机舱里工作。
司炉工,尤指在轮船或蒸汽火车上向锅炉加煤的人。
A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
拨火装置;火钩。
A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
自动加煤装置。
A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
双人自行车的后座骑手。
A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
The stoker added more coal to keep the steam pressure high in the locomotive's boiler.
司炉工加了更多的煤,以保持机车锅炉内的蒸汽压力。
When the ship reached port, the stoker climbed up from the engine room for fresh air.
船抵达港口时,司炉从机舱爬上甲板去呼吸新鲜空气。
Stokers on early steamships often worked in shifts to keep the furnaces burning.
早期蒸汽船上的司炉经常轮班工作,以保持炉火不熄。
此处 stoker 指人,即负责给锅炉添煤的工人,常见于旧时以煤为燃料的轮船或火车。
The stoker on the old steamship worked in the engine room.
老蒸汽船上的司炉在机舱里工作。
此处 stoker 指机械装置,即自动向锅炉或熔炉送入燃料的设备;注意不是人。
The factory bought a stoker for the new boiler.
工厂为新锅炉买了一台加煤机。
Not this
He stokers the fire before the train departs.
Use this
He stokes the fire before the train departs.
stoker是名词,指司炉或加煤机;它的动词形式是stoke。把stoker当作动词使用是错误的,第三人称单数应写为stokes。
Not this
I have read Dracula by stoker.
Use this
I have read Dracula by Bram Stoker.
stoker作普通名词时指烧火工人或加煤机;而《德古拉》的作者是爱尔兰作家Bram Stoker,Stoker是专有名词,必须大写并通常加上全名。
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机械加煤机
The plant installed a mechanical stoker to feed coal into the furnace.
工厂安装了一台机械加煤机向炉内送煤。
船上的司炉;船上烧火工
The ship's stoker had to work near the hot boilers all day.
船上的司炉整天都得在滚烫的锅炉旁工作。
司炉长;司炉班长
He spent two years as chief stoker on an old steamship.
他在一艘老式轮船上当了两年司炉长。
布拉姆·斯托克(爱尔兰作家)
Bram Stoker is known for his novel Dracula.
布拉姆·斯托克以其小说《德古拉》闻名。
《惊情四百年》(1992年电影),改编自布拉姆·斯托克的小说《德古拉》,是著名的吸血鬼题材电影。
Bram Stoker was an Irish writer best known for the novel Dracula.
布拉姆·斯托克是爱尔兰作家,以小说《德古拉》最为著名。
《斯托克》(2013年电影),由朴赞郁执导,讲述一个年轻女孩在父亲去世后逐渐发现家族秘密的心理惊悚片。
The film 'Stoker' features a mysterious uncle who moves in after the father's death.
电影《斯托克》讲述了父亲去世后,一位神秘叔叔搬进家中,从而引出家族秘密的故事。
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stoker里藏着stoke(添煤、拨火),加-er表示“做这件事的人”。想象司炉工用铁钩捅炉膛添煤,记住stoke就记住了stoker。
语域:neutral 常见场景:coal-fired steamships、steam locomotives、old factory boiler rooms 作‘司炉’(烧火工人)解时,通常用于描述过去以煤为燃料的轮船、火车或工厂锅炉房里的工种;现代日常口语中较少提及,多出现在历史叙述或文学作品中。
以上五个词都与 stoker 押韵(重读元音 /əu/ + /kə/)。注意形近词 stocker 读作 /ˈstɒkə/,与 stoker 发音不同。
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