Foreman
['fɔːmən] or ['fɔrmən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who exercises control over workers; 'if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman'.
(noun.) a man who is foreperson of a jury.
比利校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The first or chief man
(n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
(n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
整理:米切尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Presiding officer (of a jury).[2]. Overseer, superintendent, BOSS, chief workman, master workman.
伯特兰校對
解釋/意思:
n. the first or chief man one appointed to preside over or act as spokesman for others: an overseer:—pl. Fore′men.
整理:李奥娜
例句/造句/用法:
- The furnace foreman is notified by the operator as to the temperature by means of small colored electric lights, located above the furnace. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Bar, who felt that he had got all the rest of the jury and must now lay hold of the Foreman, soon came sidling up, double eye-glass in hand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I'll tell him that, said Mr. Yorke, when his foreman mentioned the rumour; and if _that_ does not bring him home full gallop, nothing will. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Printers get six dollars and a half a month, but I have heard of a foreman who gets thirteen. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Some directions necessary to be given to her foreman, John, delayed her behind her cousins as they neared Fieldhead on their return. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- As he passed out, the jury, who had turned back and paused a moment, spoke, through their foreman. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- As business increased he put on a night force, and was his own foreman on both shifts. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A foreman-representative of the dust contractors, purchasers of the Mounds, had worn Mr Wegg down to skin and bone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- My wife was a foreman's daughter, and plainly brought up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- We had a hand-laborer foreman--'Big Jim'--a very powerful Irishman, who could lift above half a ton. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
校對:杜鲁门