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beachcomber

/beech-koh-mer/US // ˈbitʃˌkoʊ mər //UK // (ˈbiːtʃˌkəʊmə) //

沙滩上的人,沙滩人,海滩人,沙滩管理员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
    • : a vagrant who lives on the seashore, especially a nonnative person living in such a way on a South Pacific island.
    • : a long wave rolling in from the ocean onto the beach.

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Examples

  • “The upshot of this line of precedent is that government-authorized invasions of property — whether by plane, boat, cable, or beachcomber — are physical takings requiring just compensation,” he wrote.

  • Periwinkles can live in very deep water, but collecting them is mostly done by beachcombers around rocky shorelines and jetty areas in clean-water habitats during low tide.

  • Hence the astonishment of Fufuti, which knew the ways of black recruits, when Karaki took the worthless beachcomber to his bosom.

  • He strolled into Mess one evening and mentioned quite casually that The Beachcomber was in camp.

  • The Beachcomber tugged his red moustache and laughed deprecatingly.

  • We wanted to lease a club that he had that was closed down, called the Beachcomber, in a suburb of Dallas.

  • He began to talk of the performances of my little two-year-old, Beachcomber; and after twenty minutes or so, he drifted away.