名詞 janitor:

1. someone employed to clean and maintain a building

1. The janitor let off some steam because the pressure was too high.
   由于壓力過高，火爐工放掉了一些蒸氣。
2. That janitor is a snail who never gets things done.
   那個(gè)照管房屋的人動(dòng)作慢吞吞的，什麼事也做不成。
3. The janitor is very conscientious.
   那個(gè)管理員很認(rèn)真。
4. He is a school janitor.
   他是學(xué)校的門衛(wèi)。

jan.i.tor

n.（名詞）
One who attends to the maintenance or cleaning of a building.
大樓管理員：照看或打掃建筑物的人
A doorman.
看門人，門房

來源：
Latin i3nitor [doorkeeper]
拉丁語 i3nitor [管門人]
from i3nua [door]
源自 i3nua [門]
from i3nus [archway] * see ei-
源自 i3nus [拱門] *參見 ei-

【引伸】
jan.ito.rial
<注釋>A holiday for janitors ought to take place in January,for both words are linked.In Latini3nus was the word for .archway, gateway, or covered passage. and also for the god of gates, doorways, and beginnings in general.As many schoolchildren know,our month January—a month of beginnings—is named for the god.Latini3nitor, the source of our word janitor and ultimately also fromi3nus, meant .doorkeeper or gatekeeper..Probably becausei3nitor was common in Latin records and documents, it was adopted into English,first being recorded in the sense .doorkeeper. around 5'7 in a Scots text.In an early quotation Saint Peter is called .the Janitor of heaven..The term can still mean .doorkeeper,.but in Scots usagejanitor also referred to a minor school official. Apparently this position at times involved maintenance duties and doorkeeping,and the maintenance duties took over the more exalted tasks,giving us the position of janitor as we know it today.
看門人的假日應(yīng)該放在一月，因?yàn)橐韵聝蓚€(gè)詞都同一月有聯(lián)系。拉丁文中的ianus 表示的是.拱門、道路或走廊.， 也是通常所說的門神、門口和開始。正如許多小學(xué)生知道的那樣，我們的一月——最初的一個(gè)月——是以神的名字命名的。拉丁文ianitor 是單詞 janitor 的來源， 追根溯源它也來自ianus， 意思是.看門人或管門人.。也許因?yàn)?strong>ianitor 這個(gè)詞在拉丁文記錄和文件中很普遍， 它才被英語所采用，最早被記錄為.看門人.之意時(shí)大約在5'7年的一篇蘇格蘭文章中。圣彼得在早期的引文中被稱為.天堂守護(hù)神.。這個(gè)詞仍然是.看門人.的意思，但在蘇格蘭用法中janitor 也指代低層的學(xué)校公務(wù)員。 顯然這個(gè)職位時(shí)不時(shí)地也包含著維護(hù)的責(zé)任和守門的義務(wù)，這種維護(hù)的責(zé)任吸取了更為崇高的任務(wù)，于是就有了正如我們今天所知道的看門人這個(gè)職務(wù)