Apprentice
[ə'prentɪs] or [ə'prɛntɪs]
解释:
(noun.) works for an expert to learn a trade.
(verb.) be or work as an apprentice; 'She apprenticed with the great master'.
手打:尼尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
(n.) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
(n.) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.
(v. t.) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
校对:蒂米
同义词及近义词：
n. Learner (of a trade).
比安卡手打
解释:
n. one bound to another to learn a trade or art: one learning the rudiments of anything a novice.—v.t. to bind as an apprentice.—ns. Apprent′icehood (Shak.) apprenticeship; Apprent′iceship the state of an apprentice: a term of practical training: specially a period of seven years.—To serve apprenticeship to undergo the training of an apprentice.
手打:莉莎
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you serve as an apprentice, foretells you will have a struggle to win a place among your companions
录入:默多克
例句:
- In the meantime the young physician’s apprentice had been lured away from Penzance. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- But the boy was no ordinary apprentice. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- An apprentice is scarce ever married; and it is expressly enacted, that no married servant shall gain any settlement by being hired for a year. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He was a poor boy and an apprentice to a wheelwright, and while thus engaged his inventive powers were developed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In Sheffield, no master cutler can have more than one apprentice at a time, by a bye-law of the corporation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- There was another old woman watching by the bed; the parish apothecary's apprentice was standing by the fire, making a toothpick out of a quill. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- If she lasts a couple of hours, I shall be surprised,' said the apothecary's apprentice, intent upon the toothpick's point. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The notion of the apprentices was still so odd to me that I asked Caddy if there were many of them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- What with schools, and classes here, and private pupils, AND the apprentices, he really has too much to do, poor fellow! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- My brother, being yet unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded himself and his apprentices in another family. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Then one evening there was a knock at the door of the living-room, and before he could answer it the door was opened, and the two apprentices, Dritzhn and Hielman, came in. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The limitation of the number of apprentices restrains it directly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Therefore we three adjourned to the apprentices together, and I made one in the dance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- At last she came here, apprenticed for three years. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- But boys cannot well be apprenticed ultimately: they should be apprenticed at fifteen. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He was apprenticed to a good master and made rapid progress, but the climate of London was bad for his health, and as soon as his term of instruction was finished he went back to Scotland. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- He was apprenticed to a barber at Bolton, and later took up that business for himself. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- I was apprenticed when I was seven year old. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- The girls were trained by their mothers, the boys either by their fathers or by some master to whom they were apprenticed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
手打:柴门霍夫