Hired

例句/造句/用法:

• I did not like to work; but I did as much of it, while young, as grown men can be hired to do in these days, and attended school at the same time. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He had hired a lodging for the present in Covent Garden, and he took the nearest way to that quarter, by Snow Hill and Holborn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• If we add hired servants the State will be complete. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• She denounced the war as wholesale murder, and Lord Wellington as a hired butcher. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• She has nursed me by day and a hired nurse has looked after me by night, for in my mad fits I was capable of anything. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• We had left the alehouse where we first met, and hired a room to hold our club in. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• They turned the sharp corner at the bottom towards the temporary home which Clym had hired and furnished, about five miles to the eastward. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• Will Haught introduced my maid to a female servant, whom he had himself hired, and whom he desired to show her mistress's apartments to my woman. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• I hired them at Mr. Polonius's, in Coventry Street. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• This house has necessarily been hired in my name. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• An apprentice is scarce ever married; and it is expressly enacted, that no married servant shall gain any settlement by being hired for a year. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• We had no transportation for our camp and garrison equipage, so wagons were hired for the occasion and on the 3d of July we started. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• And the hired footman came, with a silent step of cold servant-like disapprobation. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• This year we three graces, as we were called, hired an opera box for the season together. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• At last I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• Something came into my head which induced me to run after him, as he was going down to the Jolly Bargemen, where he had left a hired carriage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• Resolved not to lose a minute in getting to Knowlesbury, I paid my bill at the hotel, and hired a fly to take me to the town. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We hired a hansom, and in half an hour we were at the address which had been given to us. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• No boat would then be hired for the purpose, and no boatmen; that would save at least a chance of suspicion, and any chance is worth saving. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• He hired a large room between three and four hundred feet wide. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
• A speculator bridged a couple of barrels with a board and we hired standing places on it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• I hired a boat directly, and we put off to her; and getting through the little vortex of confusion of which she was the centre, went on board. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• I was almost sorry we had hired this man, his name was so unbearable. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• She hired a crossing-sweeping boy to show it her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
• Mas'r gen'ly hired him out. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• To obviate the deficiency, pack mules were hired, with Mexicans to pack and drive them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.

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