Hireling
['haɪəlɪŋ] or ['haɪɚlɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.
(a.) Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.
編輯:米考伯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Mercenary, hired soldier.[2]. Hired servant.
a. Mercenary, venal.
整理:凯瑟琳
例句/造句/用法:
- There was, in fact, no very hard duty to perform; but a hireling might have found it hard. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I did not like to put my hand into a hireling's, but it is pleasant to feel it circled by Jane's little fingers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Then hirelings will help to make up our population? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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