Groom
[gruːm] or [ɡrum]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a man who has recently been married.
(noun.) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony.
(verb.) care for one's external appearance; 'He is always well-groomed'.
手打:撒迪厄斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
(n.) One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole.
(n.) A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom.
(v. i.) To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.
錄入:尼科尔
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Waiter, servant, valet.[2]. Stable-servant, hostler.[3]. Bridegroom.
康斯坦丁校對
解釋/意思:
n. one who has the charge of horses: a title of several officers of the royal household: a bridegroom.—v.t. to tend as a horse.—n. Grooms′man the attendant on a bridegroom at his marriage.
編輯:马克斯
例句/造句/用法:
- A groom took the cutter to the stables, and Archer struck through the park to the high-road. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- A fine horse, my friend, said the Count, addressing the groom with the most engaging familiarity of manner, You are going to drive out? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I am after Ph?be to shoot her, and the groom is gone another way. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She is not well, ma'am, says a groom in Mrs. Rouncewell's audience-chamber. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Arternoon, you mean,' replied the groom, casting a surly look at Sam. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- At the sand-hillocks we were met by the under-groom, running to us from the house. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- This groom is the pilot-fish before the nobler shark. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- They know we are poor, so it's no use pretending that we have grooms, buy three or four hats a season, and have things as easy and fine as they do. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Hunter waited until his fellow-grooms had returned, when he sent a message to the trainer and told him what had occurred. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Sir Percival himself dismissed the grooms and stablemen, sending them, with all the horses but one, to London. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The horses are splendid, and the men, especially the grooms, ride well, but the women are stiff, and bounce, which isn't according to our rules. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- They went around, one after the other, their heads down, the grooms leading them. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I fancy them guarded by grooms of the chamber with flaming silver forks with which they prong all those who have not the right of the entree. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- After breakfast, his two grooms rode up to the door with three horses: one of them was a delightfully quiet-looking lady's horse. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The well-groomed chestnut horse and two beautiful setters could leave no doubt that the rider was Sir James Chettam. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- This sparkling sally is to the effect that although he always knew she was the best-groomed woman in the stud, he had no idea she was a bolter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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