gapper

gapper — 名詞

1. someone who has completed secondary school and chooses to spend a year working,

1.名詞B2
釋義

間隔年學生

中學畢業後，上大學前旅行或打工的學生

someone who has completed secondary school and chooses to spend a year working, travelling, or volunteering before starting university or other higher education.

例句

After handing in his textbooks, Quan signed up as a gapper teaching English in Vietnam.

Quan 交還課本後，報名成為一名到越南教英文的間隔年學生。

gapper + teaching [language] in [country] — typical work context

The hostel in Buenos Aires was full of Australian gappers travelling across South America.

布宜諾斯艾利斯的青年旅館裡，到處都是正在南美旅行的澳洲間隔年學生。

nationality + gapper + travelling — common travel pattern

同義詞
  • gap year student

    more formal and transparent; used in official applications and documents rather than casual conversation.

  • backpacker

    broader — refers to anyone travelling with a backpack on a budget; does not imply the educational before-university context.

  • volunteer

    narrower — only applies if the gapper is doing unpaid work; not all gappers volunteer.

文法句型

[nationality/adjective] + gapper

work as a gapper

gapper + verb (teach, travel, volunteer)

用法筆記

Primarily British English and used in informal contexts. Gapper is less commonly used in American English, where 'gap year student' or simply 'student on a gap year' is more typical.

常見錯誤

❌I took a gapper between school and college.
✅I took a gap year between school and college.
💡'gapper' refers to the person, not the year itself.
❌She applied to be a gapper at the local bank.
✅She applied to be a gapper teaching in Thailand.
💡'gapper' implies a year of travel, work abroad, or volunteering, not a regular office job.
❌The gapper program starts in September.
✅The gap year program starts in September.
💡Use 'gap year' as an adjective before nouns like 'programme', not 'gapper'.