Apprentice
[ə'prentɪs] or [ə'prɛntɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) works for an expert to learn a trade.
(verb.) be or work as an apprentice; 'She apprenticed with the great master'.
手打:尼尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
(n.) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
(n.) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.
(v. t.) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
校對:蒂米
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Learner (of a trade).
比安卡手打
解釋/意思:
n. one bound to another to learn a trade or art: one learning the rudiments of anything a novice.—v.t. to bind as an apprentice.—ns. Apprent′icehood (Shak.) apprenticeship; Apprent′iceship the state of an apprentice: a term of practical training: specially a period of seven years.—To serve apprenticeship to undergo the training of an apprentice.
手打:莉莎
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you serve as an apprentice, foretells you will have a struggle to win a place among your companions
錄入:默多克
例句/造句/用法:
- In the meantime the young physician’s apprentice had been lured away from Penzance. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But the boy was no ordinary apprentice. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- An apprentice is scarce ever married; and it is expressly enacted, that no married servant shall gain any settlement by being hired for a year. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He was a poor boy and an apprentice to a wheelwright, and while thus engaged his inventive powers were developed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In Sheffield, no master cutler can have more than one apprentice at a time, by a bye-law of the corporation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- There was another old woman watching by the bed; the parish apothecary's apprentice was standing by the fire, making a toothpick out of a quill. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- If she lasts a couple of hours, I shall be surprised,' said the apothecary's apprentice, intent upon the toothpick's point. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The notion of the apprentices was still so odd to me that I asked Caddy if there were many of them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- What with schools, and classes here, and private pupils, AND the apprentices, he really has too much to do, poor fellow! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- My brother, being yet unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded himself and his apprentices in another family. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Then one evening there was a knock at the door of the living-room, and before he could answer it the door was opened, and the two apprentices, Dritzhn and Hielman, came in. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The limitation of the number of apprentices restrains it directly. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Therefore we three adjourned to the apprentices together, and I made one in the dance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- At last she came here, apprenticed for three years. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But boys cannot well be apprenticed ultimately: they should be apprenticed at fifteen. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He was apprenticed to a good master and made rapid progress, but the climate of London was bad for his health, and as soon as his term of instruction was finished he went back to Scotland. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He was apprenticed to a barber at Bolton, and later took up that business for himself. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I was apprenticed when I was seven year old. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The girls were trained by their mothers, the boys either by their fathers or by some master to whom they were apprenticed. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
手打:柴门霍夫