work as a sweeper
sweeper 指以清扫为职业的人,是可数名词,work as 后接职业名称。
He works as a sweeper at a factory.
他在一家工厂做清洁工。
清洁工;清扫工
sweepers — plural of sweeper
先理解核心含义,再看它在真实句子里的用法。
清洁工;清扫工
an employee who sweeps floors or streets
He works as a sweeper at a factory.
他在一家工厂做清洁工。
清扫者;打扫的人。
One who sweeps.
清扫地板或烟囱的人。
One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
扫雷器;地雷探测器。
A detector for mines.
单鳍鱼科的小型热带海洋鲈形目鱼类,通常体侧扁、眼大。
Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
The street sweeper starts work before dawn every day.
街道清扫工每天天亮前就开始工作。
The sweeper cleaned the warehouse floor after the night shift.
清扫工在夜班结束后打扫了仓库地板。
Our office hired a new sweeper to keep the corridors tidy.
我们办公室雇了一名新的清扫工来保持走廊整洁。
sweeper 指以清扫为职业的人,是可数名词,work as 后接职业名称。
He works as a sweeper at a factory.
他在一家工厂做清洁工。
用 who 引导定语从句,可以具体说明是哪一位清洁工。
The sweeper who cleans our street is always early.
清扫我们街道的清洁工总是来得很早。
sweeper 也可指单鳍鱼科的鱼;表示这类鱼时常用复数 sweepers。
Sweepers live in warm shallow seas.
单鳍鱼生活在温暖的浅海中。
Not this
He sweepers the classroom every day.
Use this
He sweeps the classroom every day.
sweeper 是名词,意为“清扫工/扫地机”;表示“打扫”这一动作要用动词 sweep。主语 He 是第三人称单数,谓语动词需加 -s。
Not this
My uncle works as sweeper in a factory.
Use this
My uncle works as a sweeper in a factory.
sweeper 是单数可数名词,表示职业时前面需要不定冠词 a。中文没有冠词,所以学习者容易漏掉,但英语中可数名词单数不能单独使用。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
街道清洁工
A street sweeper was using a broom to clear the fallen leaves.
一名街道清洁工正在用扫帚清扫落叶。
扫烟囱工人
The chimney sweeper climbed onto the roof with a long brush.
扫烟囱的工人带着一把长刷子爬上了屋顶。
地毯清扫器
She pushed the carpet sweeper across the living room floor.
她推着地毯清扫器在客厅地板上清扫。
单鳍鱼
The sweeper fish comes out to feed only after dark.
单鳍鱼只在天黑后才出来觅食。
那里有成千上万的扫烟囱孩子——迪克、乔、内德和杰克——全都被锁进了黑色的棺材。
From William Blake's poem 'The Chimney Sweeper' (Songs of Innocence, 1789), a famous critique of child labor in 18th-century England. The word 'sweepers' appears in the plural, referring to chimney sweeps.
出自威廉·布莱克的诗《扫烟囱的孩子》(《天真与经验之歌》,1789),这是对18世纪英国童工现象的著名批判。此处的 sweepers 为复数,指扫烟囱的童工。
Use sweepers naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
想象清洁工拿着扫帚sweep(扫)地,-er表示人,就是sweeper(清扫夫)。
语域:neutral 常见场景:floor cleaning、street cleaning 本条目取“清扫工”这一常用义。该词属于中性表达,在正式和非正式场合都比较自然,多用于指清扫街道、地板或大楼的雇员。作为名词使用时没有明显褒贬色彩。
这些词都与 sweeper /ˈswiːpə/ 押韵,都以 /iːpə/ 结尾。注意 -eeper 拼写在 keeper、sleeper、deeper、leaper、reaper 中出现,而 cheaper 拼写为 -ea- 但发音同样是长 /iː/。注意形近但发音不同的词:sweater /ˈswetə/(-ea- 发 /e/)、swipe /swaɪp/(元音和尾音都不同)、sweep /swiːp/(相关动词,但末尾没有 /ə/)。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.