Beadle
['biːd(ə)l]
解释:
(noun.) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function.
(noun.) United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989).
凯瑟琳整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
(v.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.
(v.) An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
安东录入
解释:
n. a mace-bearer (esp. of the 'bedels' or 'bedells ' official attendants of the Oxford and Cambridge vice-chancellors): a petty officer of a church college parish &c.: a parish officer with the power of punishing petty offenders: in Scotland used of the 'church-officer' attending on the clergyman: (obs.) a messenger or crier of a court.—ns. Bead′ledom Bead′lehood stupid officiousness; Bead′leship Bed′elship the office of beadle or bedel.
卡梅拉整理
例句:
- No, I will not, sir,' replied the beadle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Oliver made a bow, which was divided between the beadle on the chair, and the cocked hat on the table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Mr. Claypole, without making any further change in his position than suffering his legs to reach the ground, gazed at the beadle in drunken terror. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- I don't know nothink about no--where I was took by the beadle, do you mean? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- You haven't seen a beadle lately? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Why, she was called in the Institution, Harriet Beadle--an arbitrary name, of course. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The sensation is heightened as the tidings spread from mouth to mouth that the beadle is on the ground and has gone in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- As she sat down, her eyes once again encountered those of the gallant beadle; she coloured, and applied herself to the task of making his tea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- So are the coffins,' replied the beadle: with precisely as near an approach to a laugh as a great official ought to indulge in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- And you ARE a beadle, are you not? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- I despise 'em,' said the beadle, growing very red in the face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Drat that beadle! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- He fixed his eyes on Mrs. Corney as he said this; and if ever a beadle looked tender, Mr. Bumble was that beadle at that moment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Beadles are but men: and Mr. Bumble smiled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
校对:卢瑟