Host
[həʊst] or [host]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association.
(noun.) a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion.
(noun.) archaic terms for army.
(noun.) any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event; 'Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games'.
(noun.) the owner or manager of an inn.
(noun.) a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there.
(noun.) (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor.
(verb.) be the host of or for; 'We hosted 4 couples last night'.
伯娜丁整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
(n.) An army; a number of men gathered for war.
(n.) Any great number or multitude; a throng.
(n.) One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
(v. t.) To give entertainment to.
(v. i.) To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
錄入:玛丽埃塔
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Entertainer.[2]. Landlord, innkeeper.[3]. Army, legion, armed force.[4]. Multitude.[5]. Consecrated wafer.
克莱尔手打
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Multitude, number, assemblage, army
ANT:Handful, sprinkling, knot, group, corps, section
手打:梅格
解釋/意思:
n. an army a large multitude.—n. Host′ing (Milt.) an encounter of hosts a battle: (Spens.) an assemblage of hosts a muster.—A host in himself one of great strength skill or resources within himself; Heavenly host the angels and archangels; Lord of hosts a favourite Hebrew term for Jehovah considered as head of the hosts of angels the hosts of stars &c.
n. in the R.C. Church the consecrated bread of the Eucharist—a thin circular wafer of unleavened bread.
n. one who entertains a stranger or guest at his house without reward: an innkeeper: an organism on which another lives as a parasite:—fem. Host′ess.—n. Host′ess-ship (Shak.) the character or office of a hostess.—adj. Host′less (Spens.) destitute of a host inhospitable.—Reckon or Count without one's host to misjudge the original idea being that of totting up one's bill without reference to the landlord.
錄入:莫拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Here the peerless Saladin met the Christian host some seven hundred years ago, and broke their power in Palestine for all time to come. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We should have liked so much to have seen and thanked our host. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Of all that mighty host, none but the two faithful spies ever lived to set their feet in the Promised Land. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I should think so,' replied the jolly host. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Let me,' says the large man, trying to attract the attention of his wife in the distance, 'have the pleasure of presenting Mrs Podsnap to her host. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The whole looked, as the host of the Rochester Arms had said, quite a desolate spot. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Miss Volumnia with a third little scream takes flight, wishing her hosts--O Lud! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- When he went to his shack he found a native cook installed there, and had to submit to the hospitality of his hosts. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He had, as I well knew, hosts of friends in Frizinghall; and he would be at no loss how to fill up his time until I returned to the hotel. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore for multitude, etc. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end--and what comes next! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Their time is the day of vengeance; their signal, the word of the Lord of hosts, thundering with the voice of His excellency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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