Job

[dʒɒb]

解释:

(noun.) a damaging piece of work; 'dry rot did the job of destroying the barn'; 'the barber did a real job on my hair'.

(noun.) the performance of a piece of work; 'she did an outstanding job as Ophelia'; 'he gave it up as a bad job'.

(noun.) the responsibility to do something; 'it is their job to print the truth'.

(noun.) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; 'estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars'; 'the job of repairing the engine took several hours'; 'the endless task of classifying the samples'; 'the farmer's morning chores'.

(noun.) a workplace; as in the expression 'on the job';.

(noun.) an object worked on; a result produced by working; 'he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right'.

(noun.) a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply.

(noun.) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit.

(noun.) any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.

(noun.) a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him.

(verb.) work occasionally; 'As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks'.

(verb.) profit privately from public office and official business.

编辑:拉维恩--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

(n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

(n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

(n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

(n.) A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.

(v. t.) To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

(v. t.) To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

(v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.

(v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.

(v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.

(v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.

(v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

(v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

(n.) The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.

珍手打

同义词及近义词：

n. Piece of work.

v. n. Do job-work, work at jobs.

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解释:

n. a monument of patience—from Job in Scripture.—n. Jobā′tion a tedious scolding.—Job's comforter one who aggravates the distress of an unfortunate man he has come to comfort; Job's news bad news; Job's post the bearer of bad news.

n. a sudden stroke or stab with a pointed instrument like a beak.—v.t. to strike or stab suddenly:—pr.p. job′bing; pa.p. jobbed.

n. any piece of work esp. of a trifling or temporary nature: miscellaneous printing-work: any undertaking with a view to profit: a mean transaction in which private gain is sought under pretence of public service.—adj. of a particular job or transaction assigned to a special use: bought or sold lumped together.—v.i. to work at jobs: to buy and sell as a broker: to hire or let out by the week or month esp. horses.—ns. Job′ber one who jobs: one who buys and sells as a broker or middleman: one who turns official actions to private advantage: one who engages in a mean lucrative affair; Job′bery jobbing: unfair means employed to procure some private end; Job′-mas′ter a livery-stable keeper who jobs out horses and carriages.—A bad job an unfortunate affair; Odd jobs occasional pieces of work.

编辑:维姬