Emissary
['emɪs(ə)rɪ] or ['ɛmɪsɛri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
卡洛琳手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
(a.) Exploring; spying.
(a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. Messenger, spy, scout, secret agent.
吉纳维芙校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I know the sort, said Mr. Hawley; some emissary. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- His emissary obeyed, and brought the desired intelligence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The Colonel and his aide-de-camp went out to meet the gentleman, rightly conjecturing that he was an emissary of Lord Steyne. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This matter, in my belief, the Steyne emissary cried, ought to be buried in the most profound oblivion. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I'm extremely sorry, sir, said this emissary, that a little accident has occurred at the Miss du Lacs': a leak in the water-tank. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- If you're an emissary you're an emissary. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I had not been laid down five minutes, when another emissary arrived: Goton came, bringing me something to drink. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The emissary, Madame Olenska rejoined, still smiling, might, for all I care, have left already; but he has insisted on waiting till this evening . 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- It was that of Eustacia's emissary. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They were strangers--emissaries from the large towns. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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