lumber room杂物间

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

A storage room for old furniture and junk．Lumber room has no currency in the United States．What Americans call tumber，wood used in building something，is called timber in Britain．One possiole explanation for the difference is that American homesteaders， in clearing their land for farming，left many discarded trees lying around；this clutter，or lumber，was later cut or split into the wooden planks that Americans know as lumber today．

旧家具和废弃物的储藏间。该词在美国不流行。美国人用lumber来指建筑用的木材，但英国人用timber表示木材。这种差异的可能解释是，美国的定居移民在开荒耕作时到处留下了砍倒而废弃的树。这些杂乱的树木(lumber)后来被劈成木板，故美国人今天称之为lumber。