Retainer
[rɪ'teɪnə] or [rɪ'tenɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment.
(noun.) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone.
安琪编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who, or that which, retains.
(n.) One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
(n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
(n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
(n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
(n.) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.
(n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.
安琪莉可录入
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Attendant, adherent, dependant, follower, hanger-on.[2]. Retaining fee.
杰拉尔德编辑
例句:
- Meantime the retainer goes round, like a gloomy Analytical Chemist: always seeming to say, after 'Chablis, sir? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It is eminently respectable, and likewise, in a general way, retainer-like. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- This fellow was a retainer of the Sheik of Tiberias. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- A fifth retainer, proceeding up the staircase with a mournful air--as who should say, 'Here is another wretched creature come to dinner; such is life! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Thus the melancholy retainer, as who should say, 'Come down and be poisoned, ye unhappy children of men! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- A stout little retainer came in with chains and led them away, looking very much frightened and evidently forgetting the speech he ought to have made. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Though they lived at a distance from his house, they were equally dependent upon him as his retainers who lived in it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Their retainers became consequently less numerous, and, by degrees, dwindled away altogether. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Four pigeon-breasted retainers in plain clothes stand in line in the hall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Amidst the vast ruins of the city of Rome half-independent families of quasi-noble adventurers and their retainers maintained themselves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Unimportant people slept about anywhere as retainers did in the medi?val castles and as people still do in Indian households. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Such local nobles would assemble bands of retainers and build themselves strongholds. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Such a proprietor, as he feeds his servants and retainers at his own house, so he feeds his tenants at their houses. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The occupiers of land were in every respect as dependent upon the great proprietor as his retainers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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