词汇精选：lumber的用法和辨析
一、详细释义：
n.
木材
例句：
They grade the lumber by its resistance to rot.
他们根据抗腐性将那些木材分类。
例句：
Lumber prices go up, and higher prices for new houses are bound to result.
木材价格上涨，新建房屋的价格势必随着上涨。
废物，无用的杂物
例句：
The wheels had been consigned to the loft as useless lumber.
那些轮子已作为废物堆放在阁楼上。
例句：
It was in this room that he kept disused portmanteaus , battered japanned cases, and other lumber.
他在这个小房间里存放着废弃不用的旅行皮箱、磨损撞坏的日本漆盒以及其他无用杂物。
隆隆声
例句：
The earthquake began with a low lumber.
地震开始时发出低沉的隆隆声。
例句：
The lumber of the train slowly died away.
火车的隆隆声慢慢消逝了。
v.
伐木 [I,T]
例句：
This valley was lumbered hard, during the past decade.
在过去十年里，这个山谷的林木被大肆采伐。
笨重地行进 [I,T]
例句：
He turned and lumbered back to his chair.
他转过身来，蹒跚着走回到椅子边坐下。
例句：
He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry.
他眼睛直视前方，加速超过了前面一辆慢吞吞行进的大卡车。
隆隆地前行 [I]
例句：
The cars lumbered past Magdalen and the University Church.
汽车隆隆驶过马德林和大学教堂。
例句：
A heavy truck lumbered by.
一辆重型卡车隆隆驶过。
乱堆 [I,T]
例句：
Do not lumber my shelf up with your collection of stones and insects.
别在我的架子上乱堆你采集的石头和昆虫。
例句：
The house is lumbered up with useless articles.
这栋房子里堆满了没用的物品。
二、词义辨析：
lumber,timber,wood,log
这些名词均有“木材”、“木”之意。lumber指伐下后未经削磨的木材，现多用于美国英语中。timber指经过匠人初步加要的备用木材，多用于英国英语。wood最普通用词，含义广，除表示“木材，木”外，还可用复数形式表示森林。log指原木或圆木。
三、参考例句：
Lumber casts.
木料会变形扭曲。
This lumber is seasoned for several years.
这种木柴已经风干好几年了。
They grade the lumber by its resistance to rot.
他们根据抗腐性将那些木材分类。
The lumber of the train slowly died away.
火车的隆隆声慢慢消逝了。
I can get local lumber from a sawmill.
我可以从伐木场弄到本地木材。
He refused to lumber himself with a family.
他不愿有家室拖累。
Can you hack it as a lumber jack?
你当伐木工人可以熬得住吗？
Piles of lumber were stacked along the road.
大量的木材堆放在路边。
Lumber prices go up, and higher prices for new houses are bound to result.
木材价格上涨，新建房屋的价格势必随着上涨。
The forest provides lumber, habitat and freshwater and it sequesters vast amounts of carbon.
森林可以提供木材、动物栖息地和淡水，还能储备大量的碳。
