Bachelor
['bætʃələ] or ['bætʃəlɚ]
解释:
(n.) A man of any age who has not been married.
(n.) An unmarried woman.
(n.) A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
(n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
(n.) In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.
(n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.
亚历克斯编辑
解释:
n. a young knight who followed the banner of another as being too young to display his own: an unmarried man: one who has taken his first degree at a university.—ns. Bach′elorhood Bach′elorship; Bach′elorism habit of a bachelor; Bach′elor's-but′ton the popular name of the double-flowered yellow or white varieties of buttercup.—Knight bachelor title of one who has been knighted but not attached to any special order.
克莱奥校对
娱乐性解释：
For a man to dream that he is a bachelor, is a warning for him to keep clear of women. For a woman to dream of a bachelor, denotes love not born of purity. Justice goes awry. Politicians lose honor.
校对:赛克
娱乐性解释：
From Latin baculus, a stick, unattached. Hence, an unattached man, which any lady may stick, stick to, or get stuck on.
校对:玛吉
例句:
- Yes, that's the name: I believe it's an old word for bachelor, isn't it? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- I'm rather confined for room here, but you must put up with all that, when you come to see a young bachelor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- This little rectory CAN do no more than make Mr. Ferrars comfortable as a bachelor; it cannot enable him to marry. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- It has done well enough, they informed their friends, for Mr Lammle when a bachelor, but it would not do now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Lydgate, with the usual shallowness of a young bachelor, wondered that Mr. Farebrother had not taught them better. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- BOUNDERBY being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- But he might be a bachelor. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- My uncle, Mr. Fairlie, never joins us at any of our meals: he is an invalid, and keeps bachelor state in his own apartments. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You must know, said he, that I am an orphan and a bachelor, residing alone in lodgings in London. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- This was a hard hit at Mr. Grimwig, who was a bachelor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- When it was over, and Georgy had rejoined his parents, Mrs. Becky returned (just for a few days) to comfort the solitary bachelor, Joseph Sedley. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She had flirted with all the marriageable officers whom the depots of her country afforded, and all the bachelor squires who seemed eligible. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- You know it is a mere bachelor's room, continued he, lighting a long tallow-candle by a short piece, which was burning in a broken candlestick. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- With his assistant, Charles Bachelor, he put a thread of the lampblack and tar in a bulb, exhausted the air, and turned on the current. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- You still smoke the Arcadia mixture of your bachelor days then! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- The events in question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Baker Street. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- It was chiefly composed of rusty old bachelors and a child of six years. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Husbands and wives TALK of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters BEAR them. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
录入:朱迪思