porters

英 [ˈpɔːtəz]

美 [ˈpɔrtərz]

n.  (尤指火车站、机场或旅馆)行李员，搬运工; (医院里护送病人的)护工; 门卫; 门房
porter的复数

柯林斯词典

• 看门人；门房
  Aporteris a person whose job is to be in charge of the entrance of a building such as a hotel.

in AM, use 美国英语用 doorman


• （火车站或宾馆的）行李员，搬运工
  Aporteris a person whose job is to carry things, for example people's luggage at a railway station or in a hotel.
• （列车卧车的）服务生
  Aporteron a train is a person whose job is to make up beds in the sleeping car and to help passengers.

in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用 attendant


• （医院运送病人的）护工，勤杂工
  In a hospital, aporteris someone whose job is to move patients from place to place.

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 orderly

双语例句

• Porters possessing guns posed a potential threat to popularizing education in densely populated areas.
  拥有枪支的那些搬运工对在人口密集地区推广教育构成了一个潜在的威胁。
• Ballot boxes are being flown by helicopter and hand-carried by porters to counting centers across this remote Himalayan country.
  在这个地处喜马拉雅偏远山区的国家，直升机和搬运工把票箱送往各地的计票中心。
• It is usual to tip waiters, porters, guides and drivers.
  给服务员、行李搬运工、导游和司机小费是惯例。
• At hotels, porters ask for a few hundred rupiah tor each bag.
  在旅馆，要让搬运工搬一件行李就得给几百卢比。
• Sherpas were first employed as porters, tasked with carrying large amounts of equipment to supply the military-style expeditions of the day.
  夏尔巴人最初被雇作搬运工，搬运当时军事化探险中大量的装备和供给。
• Kumar and many porters, as only a simple Arabic numerals and letters, disguising an illiterate.
  库玛和许多搬运工一样，只会简单的阿拉伯数字和字母，如假包换的一个文盲。
• The porters earn about three dollars a day as they repeatedly climb and descend the city's steep hills.
  在日复一日的爬坡上坎中，这些挑夫每天大约可以赚取3美元。
• The transportation of burdens by porters.
  通过搬运工的重物搬运。
• Outside, there was the shouting of porters and vendors and, near the carriage door, a highpitched female voice that must have belonged to the girl's aunt.
  外面，脚夫和小贩在喊叫，近车门处一个嗓音很高的女人在说话，那一定是她的姑妈了。
• The porters may be-fied by their red caps.
  从他们戴的红帽子就可辨认出他们是行李搬运工。