Collector
[kə'lektə] or [kə'lɛktɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes.
(noun.) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth.
(noun.) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes).
(noun.) a person who collects things.
錄入:赖安--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
(n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
(n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
(n.) One authorized to collect debts.
(n.) A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
整理:罗威娜
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A man whom few care to see but many ask to call again.
整理:尼古拉斯
例句/造句/用法:
- When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- If the collector himself should become bankrupt, the parish which elects him must answer for his conduct to the receiver-general of the election. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But your real collector values a thing for its rarity. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- One of the latest forms of such a collector has for its essential principle the vertical or rotatory air current, which it is claimed moves and precipitates the finest particles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Having put the Collector into the hands of his servant, Dobbin loitered about, smoking his cigar before the inn door. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The gentleman was an enthusiastic collector of Oriental antiquities, and had been for many years a liberal patron of the establishment in Lambeth. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Outside along the street were the refuse cans from the houses waiting for the collector. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- And is there any news of the Collector of Boggley Wollah? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I'm not really a collector, you see; I simply like to have good editions of the books I am fond of. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- With this mild beverage before him, George Osborne found the ex-Collector of Boggley Wollah groaning on the sofa at his lodgings. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Thus the Leyden jar is both a collector and a condenser of electricity. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- What a beautiful, BYOO-OOTIFUL song that was you sang last night, dear Miss Sharp, said the Collector. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It was perhaps her very manner of holding herself aloof that appealed to his collector's passion for the rare and unattainable. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The Pacha of a Pachalic does not trouble himself with appointing tax-collectors. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We collectors feel an interest in every new man till he has seen all we have to show him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Many pieces have strayed into the hands of great private collectors of rare porcelain, and both England and Russia have many fine examples of his masterpieces. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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