Customer
['kʌstəmə] or ['kʌstəmɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.
(n.) One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
(n.) A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.
(n.) A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.
(n.) A lewd woman.
盖尔校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Purchaser, buyer.
哈迪編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- That 'ere queer customer, and the melan-cholly chap with the black hair. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This remark he offers like a most respectable tradesman anxious to execute an order neatly and to the perfect satisfaction of his customer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It ain't that I object to being passed over for a stranger, though I regard the stranger as a more than doubtful customer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- One day Chinnock came to me and said: 'I have a new customer. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Probably he handed it to some sailor customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- There happened to be no customer in the shop but Jacques Three, of the restless fingers and the croaking voice. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- You're a soft customer, you are; we've got it all out o' you, anyhow,' thought Mr. Weller, as Job walked away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Once again he went to the customer's meter to look around, when a small piece of thick wire on the floor caught his eye. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Some of them, perhaps, may sometimes decoy a weak customer to buy what he has no occasion for. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Why, I generally say customer myself, replies Mr. Snagsby. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mr. Snagsby addresses an explanatory cough to Mrs. Snagsby, as who should say, My dear, a customer! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A customer wanted some special barrels with nine bores in a single piece of steel. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Rome will be a ugly customer to you, if you don't. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Hence, after supplying an all-night customer whose lamps were on one side of the circuits, the company might be found to owe him some thing substantial in the morning. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- So well had the work been planned and executed, however, that nothing happened to hinder the continuous working of the station and the supply of light to customers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Think of what I have to provide for calling customers, my dear! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Seeing the need for some means of increasing the demand for honey, a small honey business was started to dispose of the product of customers who had no market. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I do; especially when I've customers like you to deal with. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman, is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was a blessing for a commerce-loving country to be overrun by such an army of customers: and to have such creditable warriors to feed. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A particular banker lends among his customers his own promissory notes, to the extent, we shall suppose, of a hundred thousand pounds. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He cannot be their merchant, nor they his customers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The moment Madame Defarge took up the rose, the customers ceased talking, and began gradually to drop out of the wine-shop. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Morgan, whose firm was one of the first customers, expressed to Mr. Edison some doubt as to the accuracy of the meter. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- And so much time was saved on this one application that customers soon began applying it to other kinds of work in their offices. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
校對:弗恩