digger
/ˈdɪgə(r)/noun
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- a person, animal, or large machine that digs earth挖掘者; 有挖掘习性的动物; 挖掘机。
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- a gold-digger or other miner掘金者; 金矿矿工; 矿工。
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- a person who excavates archaeological sites考古发掘者。
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Digger
a member of a group of radical dissenters formed in England in 1649 as an offshoot of the Levellers, believing in a form of agrarian communism in which common land would be made available to the poor掘土派成员（英国一激进的不信奉国教者的组织的成员, 该组织成立于1649年, 是平均派的一个分支, 他们信奉农业共产主义, 认为穷人应该分得公共用地）。
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- Austral./NZ informal a man, especially a private soldier (often used as a friendly form of address)〈澳/新西兰, 非正式〉［用作对男子, 尤其是列兵的友好称呼］伙计：
how are you, Digger?
你好么, 伙计？
ORIGIN: early 20th cent.: from digger 'miner', reinforced by association with the digging of trenches on the battlefields.