Governor
['gʌv(ə)nə] or ['ɡʌvɚnɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel).
(noun.) the head of a state government.
校对:雷明顿--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
(n.) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
(n.) A pilot; a steersman.
(n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
埃米尔编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Ruler, director, manager, comptroller, superintendent, overseer.[2]. Executive, chief magistrate.[3]. Tutor, instructor, guardian.
校对:米里亚姆
例句:
- I belong to the shop, only my sister has a theory that our governor must never know it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The governor hisself'll be down here presently. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The T'other Governor he's always joked his jokes agin me, owing, as I believe, to my being a honest man as gets my living by the sweat of my brow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Tell your governor that Blathers and Duff is here, will you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- A boss was telling a governor how to extend his power. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Hooroar T'otherest Governor! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Day arter to-morrow, governor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The Governor of North Carolina called for everybody who could stand behind a parapet and shoot a gun, to join them. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The revenues of the Governor of Coventry Island are not large. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- My Governor, I am sure, will always be proud to entertain one whom I so much esteem. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Not a inch sooner, governor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I thought you knowed the man I mean, learned governor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- And you needn't, says Mr. Bucket in a considerate and private voice, you needn't commit yourself to too low a figure, governor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Hooroar T'other t'other Governor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The trouble was with the governors. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I ask your pardons, Governors,' replied the ghost, as before, 'but probable you was not aware your door stood open. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I then put up a long shaft, connecting all the governors together, and thought this would certainly cure the trouble; but it didn't. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Besides which, I think the wine of them two Governors was--I will not say a hocussed wine, but fur from a wine as was elthy for the mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Now there are occasions on which the governors and the governed meet together,--at festivals, on a journey, voyaging or fighting. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I ask your pardons, Governors,' replied the ghost, in a hoarse double-barrelled whisper, 'but might either on you be Lawyer Lightwood? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Now, I'm blest if I understand you, Governors Both,' said the informer, in a creeping manner: propitiating both, though only one had spoken. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- South of these stood Bambyce, with its huge temples and priestly governors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It made also governors of States, members of the cabinet, foreign ministers and other officers of high rank both in state and nation. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- There's two Governors, ain't there? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Yes, I will,' said the man; 'and I don't deceive you, Governors. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The French noblesse chose to have the people '_sans culottes_,' and they had '_sans culotte_' governors to their hearts' content. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- There is a similar irony in the argument that the governors of mankind do not like being in office, and that therefore they demand pay. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The keepers of those houses or castles might be considered as a sort of military governors. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Out of a tumultuous medley appeared the common theme of public opinion--that the leaders should lead, that the governors should govern. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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