Bachelor
['bætʃələ] or ['bætʃəlɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a man who has never been married.
(verb.) lead a bachelor's existence.
卡尔文校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A man of any age who has not been married.
(n.) An unmarried woman.
(n.) A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
(n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
(n.) In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.
(n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.
亚历克斯編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a young knight who followed the banner of another as being too young to display his own: an unmarried man: one who has taken his first degree at a university.—ns. Bach′elorhood Bach′elorship; Bach′elorism habit of a bachelor; Bach′elor's-but′ton the popular name of the double-flowered yellow or white varieties of buttercup.—Knight bachelor title of one who has been knighted but not attached to any special order.
克莱奥校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
For a man to dream that he is a bachelor, is a warning for him to keep clear of women. For a woman to dream of a bachelor, denotes love not born of purity. Justice goes awry. Politicians lose honor.
校對:赛克
娱乐性解釋/意思：
From Latin baculus, a stick, unattached. Hence, an unattached man, which any lady may stick, stick to, or get stuck on.
校對:玛吉
例句/造句/用法:
- Yes, that's the name: I believe it's an old word for bachelor, isn't it? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I'm rather confined for room here, but you must put up with all that, when you come to see a young bachelor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This little rectory CAN do no more than make Mr. Ferrars comfortable as a bachelor; it cannot enable him to marry. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It has done well enough, they informed their friends, for Mr Lammle when a bachelor, but it would not do now. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Lydgate, with the usual shallowness of a young bachelor, wondered that Mr. Farebrother had not taught them better. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- BOUNDERBY being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But he might be a bachelor. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- My uncle, Mr. Fairlie, never joins us at any of our meals: he is an invalid, and keeps bachelor state in his own apartments. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You must know, said he, that I am an orphan and a bachelor, residing alone in lodgings in London. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- This was a hard hit at Mr. Grimwig, who was a bachelor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- When it was over, and Georgy had rejoined his parents, Mrs. Becky returned (just for a few days) to comfort the solitary bachelor, Joseph Sedley. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She had flirted with all the marriageable officers whom the depots of her country afforded, and all the bachelor squires who seemed eligible. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You know it is a mere bachelor's room, continued he, lighting a long tallow-candle by a short piece, which was burning in a broken candlestick. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- With his assistant, Charles Bachelor, he put a thread of the lampblack and tar in a bulb, exhausted the air, and turned on the current. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- You still smoke the Arcadia mixture of your bachelor days then! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The events in question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Baker Street. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It was chiefly composed of rusty old bachelors and a child of six years. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Husbands and wives TALK of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters BEAR them. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
錄入:朱迪思