Agent
['eɪdʒ(ə)nt] or ['edʒənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect; 'their research uncovered new disease agents'.
(noun.) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission.
(noun.) a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations.
(noun.) any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau.
(noun.) a substance that exerts some force or effect.
安娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.
(n.) One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
(n.) One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
(n.) An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
手打:默文
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Actor, doer, operator, performer, executor.[2]. Deputy, attorney, factor, representative, substitute, proxy, go-between, procurator, middleman, commissioner, vicegerent.[3]. Hand, employ?
艾达校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Doer, performer, actor, force, means, instrument, influence, cause, promoter,operator
ANT:Counteragent, counteractor, counteraction, opponent, neutralizer
戈代娃手打
解釋/意思:
n. a person or thing that acts or exerts power: any natural force acting on matter: one authorised or delegated to transact business for another.—n. Ag′ency the office or business operation or action of an agent; instrumentality.—Law agent a general term in Scotland including Writers to the Signet Solicitors to the Supreme Court and Procurators in the sheriff courts—the requirements are an indentured apprenticeship of five years to a law agent the passing of examinations in general knowledge and in law and formal admission by the Court of Session.
黛比手打
例句/造句/用法:
- One of these compounds, namely, chloride of lime, is the almost universal bleaching agent of commerce. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It may be an admirable agent of reform, but it has ceased to be a church. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As boracic acid is but slightly soluble in water and other common solvents this combination with glycerine--which is also a useful agent in arresting the growth of germs--is peculiarly valuable. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- In spite of his resolute assumption of composure, he was getting anxious for the agent's arrival. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Man must learn to know himself; he must see his station among created things; he must become a moral agent. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The harmless nature of sulphurous acid makes it very desirable as a bleaching agent, especially in the home. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I left the agent with my mind relieved from all present fear of the Count's escaping me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- While soap is, generally speaking, the best cleansing agent, there are occasions when other substances can be used to better advantage. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The liquid extinguishing agent has seen little change since 1907. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But personal service, by clerk or agent, in these cases, you know, Mr. Pickwick--nothing like caution, sir, in all legal forms--eh? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- As a cleansing agent it is valueless. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The burning logs gave warmth to the cabin and served as a primitive cooking agent; and the smoke which usually accompanies burning bodies was carried away by means of the chimney. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Deliver this letter to the agent when you reach Liverpool, and let me advise you, gentlemen, not to be too knowing in the West Indies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Mr. King acted as agent for an American inventor, Mr. Starr, and the lamp came to be known as the Starr-King lamp, shown in Fig. 50. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The agent may be caught. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A part of the second floor is devoted to the storage and the shipping of parts to branches and agents. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I saw these advertisements about harpooners, and high wages, so I went to the shipping agents, and they sent me here. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Mr. Arnold Bennett puts forth a rather curious hybrid when he advises us to treat ourselves as free agents and everyone else as an automaton. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In the hands of a skillful physician practically no danger is to be apprehended from the use of either of the two agents. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is not until the speakers and the publicity agents have actually begun to animate it that the country sees what the party is about. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- However, I will write to my agents about the yacht, to Mrs Dengelton and the Rector about their joining us at Athens. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Various other anti-septic agents are used and combined in different ways, according to the results of experiments. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- His plan was to create a national telephone system, and so he confined each of his agents to one place, and reserved all rights to connect one city with another. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Do you think, if I instruct my agents about the yacht, and write to Mrs Dengelton and the Rector, that they will come out to Athens? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Through all the agents that make and popularize thought must come a bent of mind interested in invention and freed from the authority of ideas. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He had told Mr Rugg that he knew what lawyers and agents were, and that he would not submit to imposition. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Those agents were not always able to replenish the coffers of their employers so fast as they were emptied. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If in addition to this the casks are washed out with an aqueous solution of the acid it will prove of great service, and all other agents at present used for this purpose will soon be abandoned. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
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