Chaperon
['ʃæpərɔn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people.
錄入:山姆--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.
(n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
(n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.
(v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.
费格斯錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a kind of hood or cap: one who attends a lady in public places as a protector.—v.t. to attend a lady to public places.—n. Chap′eronage.
手打:内蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- I am sure I shall be very happy to chaperon you at any time till I am confined, if Mrs. Dashwood should not like to go into public. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- We'll have Mrs. O'Dowd to chaperon you, he said. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Freed from a cold and over-chaperoned respectability they compete with the devil. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Lord Kinnaird passed us again, and nodded good-naturedly as he chaperoned some ladies to their carriage. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Mrs. Haggistoun, Colonel Haggistoun's widow, her relative, chaperoned her, and kept her house. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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