factotum
/fækˈtəʊtəm/noun
(pl. factotums)
- an employee who does all kinds of work勤杂工:
he was employed as the general factotum.
他受雇当了杂务总管。
词源
mid 16th cent. (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister) factotum, translating roughly as 'master of everything', and Johannes factotem 'John do-it-all' or 'Jack of all trades'): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! 'do!' (imperative of facere ) + totum 'the whole thing' (neuter of totus).