Foreman
['fɔːmən] or ['fɔrmən]
解释:
(noun.) a person who exercises control over workers; 'if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman'.
(noun.) a man who is foreperson of a jury.
比利校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The first or chief man
(n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
(n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
整理:米切尔
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Presiding officer (of a jury).[2]. Overseer, superintendent, BOSS, chief workman, master workman.
伯特兰校对
解释:
n. the first or chief man one appointed to preside over or act as spokesman for others: an overseer:—pl. Fore′men.
整理:李奥娜
例句:
- The furnace foreman is notified by the operator as to the temperature by means of small colored electric lights, located above the furnace. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Bar, who felt that he had got all the rest of the jury and must now lay hold of the Foreman, soon came sidling up, double eye-glass in hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I'll tell him that, said Mr. Yorke, when his foreman mentioned the rumour; and if _that_ does not bring him home full gallop, nothing will. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Printers get six dollars and a half a month, but I have heard of a foreman who gets thirteen. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Some directions necessary to be given to her foreman, John, delayed her behind her cousins as they neared Fieldhead on their return. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- As he passed out, the jury, who had turned back and paused a moment, spoke, through their foreman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- As business increased he put on a night force, and was his own foreman on both shifts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- A foreman-representative of the dust contractors, purchasers of the Mounds, had worn Mr Wegg down to skin and bone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- My wife was a foreman's daughter, and plainly brought up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- We had a hand-laborer foreman--'Big Jim'--a very powerful Irishman, who could lift above half a ton. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
校对:杜鲁门