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单词 lumber
释义
lumber
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
uk
/ˈlʌm.bər/us
/ˈlʌm.bɚ/
tomoveslowlyandawkwardly:
缓慢笨拙地移动
In thedistance, we couldseeaherdofelephantslumberingacrosstheplain.我们可以看见远处有一群大象缓缓穿过平原。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
  • blunder
  • bumble
  • dodder
  • dodderer
  • doddery
  • halting
  • hardly/barely put one foot in front of the otheridiom
  • have two left feetidiom
  • hobble
  • limp
  • lollop
  • reel
  • squeeze
  • straggle
  • teeter
  • toddle
  • toil
  • totter
  • trundle
  • tumble
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Phrasal verb

lumbersomeonewithsomething
lumber
noun[U]
US
uk
/ˈlʌm.bər/us
/ˈlʌm.bɚ/
(UKtimber)
C2
woodthat has beenpreparedforbuilding
木材，木料
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Types of wood
  • balsa wood
  • beech
  • boxwood
  • cedar
  • deal
  • dyewood
  • Eastern white pine
  • fir
  • knotty
  • mahogany
  • maple
  • matchwood
  • mulga
  • pine
  • plywood
  • softwood
  • spruce
  • teak
  • timber
  • walnut
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(Definition oflumberfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

lumber| American Dictionary

lumber
noun[U]
us
/ˈlʌm·bər/

lumbernoun[U](WOOD)

woodthat has beencutintovariouslengthsforbuilding
lumber
verb[Ialways+ adv/prep]
us
/ˈlʌm·bər/

lumberverb[I always + adv/prep](MOVE)

tomovein aslow,awkward, andheavyway:
Anoisy,old,pickuptrucklumbered past.
(Definition oflumberfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

lumber| Business English

lumber
noun[U]
NATURAL RESOURCES
uk
/ˈlʌmbər/us
→timber
(Definition oflumberfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflumber

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The 1993 volume oflumberexported, for example, reflected a 434 per cent increase above the 1983 figure.
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In terms of capital investment,lumberproduction provided the next least expensive way of increasing exports with a ready external market.
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The opportunity to break loose from obligations to clan and lineage elders attracted thousands of young men into thelumbercamps each year.
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Thelumberwas used to build a substantial sleeping hut, as well as a watchtower, from which the behaviour of the ice could be observed.
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Recruiters were able to evade administrative supervision and engage workers from circonscriptions hundreds of miles from thelumbercamps.
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Obviously, the prosecution should not be lumbered with having to eliminate all possible doubts from the minds of jurors, only their reasonable doubts.
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One interviewee suggested that more local processing of logs into dimensionlumberwould add value and offer longer periods of employment.
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Vehicles are nothing but survival machines, lumbering robots controlled by the replicators that produced them.
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It does not burden the soft positivists with what many of them would see as unwanted ontologicallumber.
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This segment of the worker population moved fromlumbercamp tolumbercamp selling their labor to the highest bidder.
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That "lumber-room" is both the origin and the narrative destination of the story.
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The two main causes of deforestation are land clearance for agriculture and commercial exploitation of forests for logs,lumber, fuel (including charcoal), and pulpwood.
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Finally, we took into account different existing studies to estimate the extraction of wood products from natural forests (firewood, charcoal andlumber).
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In 1990, foreign exchange generated bylumberexports had increased by 903 per cent, whilst furniture and fixtures increased by 619 per cent.
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The increase in foreign exchange generated was also boosted by an increase in the contribution made by the export of kiln-driedlumber.
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Collocationswithlumber

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dimensional lumber
The wood is used for dimensional lumber, timbers, pilings, and plywood.
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lumber business
He resumed thelumberbusiness.
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lumber company
He also owned alumbercompany.
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