Teller
['telə] or ['tɛlɚ]
解释:
(noun.) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money.
(noun.) an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly).
(noun.) United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003).
校对:威尔默--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
(n.) One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.
(n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.
(n.) One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
整理:莱斯利
例句:
- Now, upon that matter the teller of modern history is obliged to be at once cautious and bold. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- At one time I thought she was a story-teller, and at another time that she was the pink of truth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The young story-teller! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- We willingly did this, for this soldier was a great story-teller, and made the time pass quickly. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I am not the fortune-teller. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Why, if I was a fortune-teller-- Looking out of the towel, he caught my eye. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I am a fortune-teller. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I'm not much of a story-teller, said our visitor, nervously clasping and unclasping his great, strong hands. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- But I am not a fortune-teller, he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I feel as if the Fortune-teller was coming true, dear Pa, and the fair little man was turning out as was predicted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- On going to the bank and passing in the check at the wicket of the paying teller, some brief remarks were made to him, which in his deafness he did not understand. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I do not believe in ogres, soothsayers, fortune tellers, or chicken-crut gypsy witchcraft. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- What the poets and story-tellers say--that the wicked prosper and the righteous are afflicted, or that justice is another's gain? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- They are found in all European countries to-day; they are tinkers, pedlars, horse-dealers, showmen, fortune-tellers, and beggars. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Those, I said, which are narrated by Homer and Hesiod, and the rest of the poets, who have ever been the great story-tellers of mankind. 柏拉图. 理想国.
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