单词 | powder monkey |
释义 | powder monkeynoun 1 historical A boy employed on a sailing warship to carry powder to the guns.But Gaston, despite this, had never known true hunger, because from the day he learnt to walk, had been employed upon a ship as a powder monkey, and his father as an able seaman....
1.1North American informal A person who works with explosives. |
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