lumber

lumber1
verb
  1. [no obj., with adverbial of direction]move in a slow, heavy, awkward way
    笨拙地移动；缓慢吃力地移动；隆隆地行进
    a truck filled his mirror and lumbered past.
    一辆卡车出现在他的后视镜中并缓缓地开了过去。
    [as adj. lumbering]Bob was big, lumbering, gentle sort.
    鲍伯块头大，举止笨拙，却温文尔雅。
    a lumbering bureaucracy.
    臃肿的官僚机构。
语源
  1. late Middle English lomere, perhaps symbolic of clumsy movement
lumber2
noun
[mass noun]
  1. (chieflyBrit.)articles of furniture or other household items that are no longer useful and inconveniently take up storage space
    (主英)家用废旧杂物；废旧家具
  2. (chiefly N. Amer.)timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise partly prepared
    (主 北美)成材；锯制板；方材
verb
  1. [with obj.](常作 be lumbered with)(Brit. informal)burden (someone) with an unwanted responsibility, task, or set of circumstances
    (英，非正式)拖累
    the banks do not want to be lumbered with a building that they cannot sell.
    银行不想被一座卖不出去的建筑所拖累。
  2. [no obj.][usu. as nounlumbering](chiefly N. Amer.)cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale
    (主北美)伐（树）
语源
  1. mid 16th cent.: perhaps from lumber; later associated with obsolete lumber 'pawnbroker's shop'
lumber3
(Scottish informal)(苏格兰，非正式)
verb
  1. [with obj.]casually strike up a relationship with (a prospective sexual partner)
    乱交，滥交
noun
  1. a person regarded as a prospective sexual partner
    （发展中的）性伴侣
语源
  1. 1960s: of unknown origin
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