Warden
['wɔːd(ə)n] or ['wɔrdn]
解释:
(n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
(n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
(n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
(n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.
整理:莱斯利
同义词及近义词：
n. Keeper, guardian, warder, custodian, curator, superintendent.
黛娜编辑
解释:
n. a kind of pear.—Warden pie a pie made of warden pears.
塞西莉亚校对
例句:
- In a few years, when he grew stouter, he would be made a warden. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Dr. Wilkns, the brother-in-law of Cromwell, who is regarded by some as the founder of the Royal Society, remove d to Oxford, as Warden of Wadham, in 1649. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- It's not the warden's fault, you know, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- He caught Fangs strolling in the forest, and said he chased the deer contrary to his master's right, as warden of the walk. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Fraulein handed the coffee, everybody smoked cigarettes, or else long warden pipes of white clay, of which a sheaf was provided. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
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