Attendant
[ə'tend(ə)nt] or [ə'tɛndənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who is present and participates in a meeting; 'he was a regular attender at department meetings'; 'the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees'.
(noun.) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another.
(adj.) following or accompanying as a consequence; 'an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems'; 'snags incidental to the changeover in management'; 'attendant circumstances'; 'the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness'; 'the ensuant response to his appeal'; 'the resultant savings were considerable' .
(adj.) being present (at meeting or event etc.) 'attendant members of the congreation' .
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解釋/意思:
(v. t.) Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
(v. t.) Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.
(v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.
(n.) One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.
(n.) One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting.
(n.) That which accompanies; a concomitant.
(n.) One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Accompanying, attending.
n. [1]. Follower, satellite, companion, fellow, associate, escort.[2]. Servant, vassal, servitor, dependant, retainer, squire, domestic, footman, lackey, VALET, waiter, flunkey, underling, menial, understrapper, tender.[3]. Accompaniment, concomitant, attendant circumstance.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Each of those machines, with a boy as an attendant, will fold 2,700 envelopes in an hour, which is nearly the same number that an experienced workman can fold in a day with a folding stick. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Thus far, Gurth, said he, addressing his attendant, the reputation of English chivalry hath not suffered in my hands. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- During the two days Mr. Pickwick was confined to bed, Sam was his constant attendant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We were interrupted by an attendant, who announced, that the staff of Raymond was assembled in the council-chamber. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I gave Lucy in charge to the Countess's attendant, and then sought repose from my various struggles and impatient regrets. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- With regard to the conditions attendant upon the manufacture of the lamps, Edison says: When we first started the electric light we had to have a factory for manufacturing lamps. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- To insure the attention of the attendant, a tiny electric lamp is by the same action lighted directly in front of her, which acts as a pilot signal to call her attention to the drop. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- When any object is presented, the idea of its usual attendant immediately strikes us, as something real and solid. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I have not counted Mr. Woodcourt among our visitors because he was now Caddy's regular attendant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She had some dim idea of driving out (at what hour she could not say) with Count Fosco, and with Mrs. Rubelle again for a female attendant. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Fancy stockings, with numerous colours blended, are so knit, and if the yarn holds out a mile of stockings may be thus knit, without a break and without an attendant. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- From the roof of the nave hung a large bronze lamp, and as the boy watched he saw an attendant draw the lamp toward him to light it, and then let it swing back again. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The attendant will answer any questions you wish to put. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The message was for the attendant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- We shall do better, said he, to leave them two of our attendants and two horses to convey them back to the next village. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Lock the door on the outside,' said Mr. Brownlow to the attendants, 'and come when I ring. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Sick people often have fancies inscrutable to ordinary attendants, and Caroline had one which even her tender nurse could not at first explain. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The trouble of watching and getting up at night will be transferred to attendants. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high place under the admiring Heavens. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was very malignant, and the looks of her attendants prognosticated the worst event. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- There was nobody in the church besides the officiating persons and the small marriage party and their attendants. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The attendants withdrew. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Girls are chosen as exchange attendants because their voices are clearer. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- He put the weeping old lady and her attendants into the carriage along with Jos, and left them without any farther words passing. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A Knight stepped forward from the King's attendants, and, laying his hand on the shoulder of Albert de Malvoisin, said, I arrest thee of High Treason. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He was not at the palace; and, though the attendants did not know whither he had gone, they did not expect him till late at night. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, have, collectively or separately, been the attendants of my career. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- A side-door at the upper end of the hall now opened behind the banquet table, and Rowena, followed by four female attendants, entered the apartment. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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