詞彙精選：lumber的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
木材
例句：
They grade the lumber by its resistance to rot.
他們根據抗腐性將那些木材分類。
例句：
Lumber prices go up, and higher prices for new houses are bound to result.
木材價格上漲，新建房屋的價格勢必隨着上漲。
廢物，無用的雜物
例句：
The wheels had been consigned to the loft as useless lumber.
那些輪子已作爲廢物堆放在閣樓上。
例句：
It was in this room that he kept disused portmanteaus , battered japanned cases, and other lumber.
他在這個小房間裏存放着廢棄不用的旅行皮箱、磨損撞壞的日本漆盒以及其他無用雜物。
隆隆聲
例句：
The earthquake began with a low lumber.
地震開始時發出低沉的隆隆聲。
例句：
The lumber of the train slowly died away.
火車的隆隆聲慢慢消逝了。
v.
伐木 [I,T]
例句：
This valley was lumbered hard, during the past decade.
在過去十年裏，這個山谷的林木被大肆採伐。
笨重地行進 [I,T]
例句：
He turned and lumbered back to his chair.
他轉過身來，蹣跚着走回到椅子邊坐下。
例句：
He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry.
他眼睛直視前方，加速超過了前面一輛慢吞吞行進的大卡車。
隆隆地前行 [I]
例句：
The cars lumbered past Magdalen and the University Church.
汽車隆隆駛過馬德林和大學教堂。
例句：
A heavy truck lumbered by.
一輛重型卡車隆隆駛過。
亂堆 [I,T]
例句：
Do not lumber my shelf up with your collection of stones and insects.
別在我的架子上亂堆你採集的石頭和昆蟲。
例句：
The house is lumbered up with useless articles.
這棟房子裏堆滿了沒用的物品。
二、詞義辨析：
lumber,timber,wood,log
這些名詞均有“木材”、“木”之意。lumber指伐下後未經削磨的木材，現多用於美國英語中。timber指經過匠人初步加要的備用木材，多用於英國英語。wood最普通用詞，含義廣，除表示“木材，木”外，還可用複數形式表示森林。log指原木或圓木。
三、參考例句：
Lumber casts.
木料會變形扭曲。
This lumber is seasoned for several years.
這種木柴已經風乾好幾年了。
They grade the lumber by its resistance to rot.
他們根據抗腐性將那些木材分類。
The lumber of the train slowly died away.
火車的隆隆聲慢慢消逝了。
I can get local lumber from a sawmill.
我可以從伐木場弄到本地木材。
He refused to lumber himself with a family.
他不願有家室拖累。
Can you hack it as a lumber jack?
你當伐木工人可以熬得住嗎？
Piles of lumber were stacked along the road.
大量的木材堆放在路邊。
Lumber prices go up, and higher prices for new houses are bound to result.
木材價格上漲，新建房屋的價格勢必隨着上漲。
The forest provides lumber, habitat and freshwater and it sequesters vast amounts of carbon.
森林可以提供木材、動物棲息地和淡水，還能儲備大量的碳。
