Escort
['eskɔːt] or ['ɛskɔt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them.
(noun.) an attendant who is employed to accompany someone.
(verb.) accompany as an escort; 'She asked her older brother to escort her to the ball'.
巴顿整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
(n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
(n.) To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
校對:托妮
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Convoy, guard, conduct.[2]. Protection, safeguard, safe conduct.
v. a. Attend, accompany, convoy, conduct, wait on, go along with.
乔茜錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
[See CONVOY]
以利沙整理
解釋/意思:
n. a body of men or a single man accompanying any one on a journey for protection guidance or merely courtesy: attendance.—v.t. Escōrt′ to attend as guide or guard.
編輯:罗德里克
例句/造句/用法:
- Another is the recommendation to the city and the nation that it should protect arriving immigrants, and if necessary escort them to their homes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- My object in having them sent to Belle Plain was to use them as an escort to our supply trains. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The rosy hours were thus beguiled until it was time for Bella to have Pa's escort back. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Therefore, Jew, I will see thee safe under some fitting escort. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Why did you not wait for me, sir, to escort me downstairs? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Their escort strolled back again, and reported. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The escort and the universal watchfulness had completely isolated him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- My knowledge of their customs lent colour to the belief that he was but being escorted to the audience chamber to have sentence passed upon him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He was escorted into the city with great pomp and ceremony. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Whom Defarge escorted to the top of the stairs, and, leaving seated there, returned. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I was escorted as far as Bethlehem, where I rested a few days to recover from the fatigue I had undergone. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mr. March proudly escorted Mrs. Laurence. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The escorted governed his own horse, but a loose line was attached to his bridle, the end of which one of the patriots kept girded round his wrist. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Besides them, there was but one other passenger--a young lady, whom a gentlemanly, though languid-looking man escorted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Say to him that Dator Xodar, with officers and men, escorting two prisoners, would be transported to the gardens of Issus beside the Golden Temple. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- They were strengthened into certainty when I beheld the Aged enter at a side door, escorting a lady. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Our cavalry charged in upon a body of theirs which was escorting a wagon train in order to get it past our left. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He attacked and drove away their cavalry which was escorting wagons to the west, capturing and burning 180 wagons. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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