Carrier
['kærɪə] or ['kærɪɚ]
解释:
(noun.) (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring.
(noun.) a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like.
(noun.) a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; 'refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business'.
(noun.) a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages.
(noun.) (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others.
(noun.) a boy who delivers newspapers.
(noun.) someone whose employment involves carrying something; 'the bonds were transmitted by carrier'.
(noun.) an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction.
杰德手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
(n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
(n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
塞西尔手打
娱乐性解释：
To see water-carriers passing in your dreams, denotes that your prospects will be favorable in fortune, and love will prove no laggard in your chase for pleasure. If you think you are a water-carrier, you will rise above your present position.
法耶手打
例句:
- The carrier looked at me, as if to inquire if she were coming back. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- My former acquaintance, the carrier, was at the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- By certain changes they made in the thread carrier and connections, they were enabled to make a double looped stitch. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The device is so arranged that the air current is caused to take either direction through the tube; and in some instances gravity may be used to assist a vacuum formed behind the carrier. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- We went arm-in-arm to the public-house where the carrier put up, and I promised, on the road, to write to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The carrier put my box down at the garden-gate, and left me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- It consisted of a large collection of bolts and screws which had been _cold-punched_, as well as of elevator and carrier chains, the links of which had been so punched. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It seemed that I had not been expected so soon, the carrier being much before his usual time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I send this by the blind carrier, so that probably it may be some time upon its journey. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- After we had jogged on for some little time, I asked the carrier if he was going all the way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The barb is allied to the carrier, but, instead of a long beak, has a very short and broad one. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Arter I run away from the carrier, and afore I took up with the vaginer, I had unfurnished lodgin's for a fortnight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- If the fodder is to be put through the feed-cutter the cutter should be placed so that the carrier will deposit it in either of the two pits as required. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The screw plug is supported by a carrier hinged at one side to the gun, and arranged to swing the plug into axial alignment with the bore, or be thrown to one side to admit the charge. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- He was mighty learned about the case, to me; but the upshot of his opinion was, that the carrier was making his last journey rather fast. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The trade itself has probably derived its name from it, the people of such countries being the carriers to other countries. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- My carriers said it was the cry of a great bull ape who has made a kill. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Such is the story of a pioneer enterprise, that of the use of submarine vessels as commerce carriers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Formerly the carriers were so constructed that they would not work advantageously at a much greater angle than 45 deg. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- This money was sent down by the waggon, and insured by the carriers at an additional expense of three quarters per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- All this iron is poured on overhead power-driven mold carriers, which travel about twelve feet per minute. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The overhead cable system for the transportation of materials of various descriptions in carriers, also run by a central motor, is still very extensively used. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The best and latest inventions and discoveries in the making of metals, wood, rubber and leather have been drawn upon in supplying these useful carriers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- These mold carriers have suspended from them pendulum-like arms, on the lower end of which is a shelf. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
校对:弗恩