Job
[dʒɒb]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a damaging piece of work; 'dry rot did the job of destroying the barn'; 'the barber did a real job on my hair'.
(noun.) the performance of a piece of work; 'she did an outstanding job as Ophelia'; 'he gave it up as a bad job'.
(noun.) the responsibility to do something; 'it is their job to print the truth'.
(noun.) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; 'estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars'; 'the job of repairing the engine took several hours'; 'the endless task of classifying the samples'; 'the farmer's morning chores'.
(noun.) a workplace; as in the expression 'on the job';.
(noun.) an object worked on; a result produced by working; 'he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right'.
(noun.) a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply.
(noun.) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit.
(noun.) any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.
(noun.) a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him.
(verb.) work occasionally; 'As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks'.
(verb.) profit privately from public office and official business.
編輯:拉维恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
(n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
(n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
(n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
(n.) A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.
(v. t.) To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
(v. t.) To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
(v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
(v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.
(v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.
(v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
(v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
(v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
(n.) The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.
珍手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Piece of work.
v. n. Do job-work, work at jobs.
乔治娜手打
解釋/意思:
n. a monument of patience—from Job in Scripture.—n. Jobā′tion a tedious scolding.—Job's comforter one who aggravates the distress of an unfortunate man he has come to comfort; Job's news bad news; Job's post the bearer of bad news.
n. a sudden stroke or stab with a pointed instrument like a beak.—v.t. to strike or stab suddenly:—pr.p. job′bing; pa.p. jobbed.
n. any piece of work esp. of a trifling or temporary nature: miscellaneous printing-work: any undertaking with a view to profit: a mean transaction in which private gain is sought under pretence of public service.—adj. of a particular job or transaction assigned to a special use: bought or sold lumped together.—v.i. to work at jobs: to buy and sell as a broker: to hire or let out by the week or month esp. horses.—ns. Job′ber one who jobs: one who buys and sells as a broker or middleman: one who turns official actions to private advantage: one who engages in a mean lucrative affair; Job′bery jobbing: unfair means employed to procure some private end; Job′-mas′ter a livery-stable keeper who jobs out horses and carriages.—A bad job an unfortunate affair; Odd jobs occasional pieces of work.
編輯:维姬
娱乐性解釋/意思:
An uncertain commodity regulated by a Union Card.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Spain was your work and your job, so being in Spain was natural and sound. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The breakfast-bell rang as the two girls disappeared--and even Sergeant Cuff was now obliged to give it up as a bad job! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Yes,' said Job. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He knew that his purpose was in the main a good one, and he placed implicit reliance on the high-minded Job. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- They are, sir,' replied Job. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Yes,' replied Job; 'but these sort of things are not so easily counterfeited, Mr. Weller, and it is a more painful process to get them up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The curtain will be a good job, however. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I have sir,' answered Job. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It would have been a troublesome job and no satisfaction. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Here, sir,' replied Job, presenting himself on the staircase. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He has, Sir,' replied Job. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Having uttered this soliloquy, and looked after Job till he was to be seen no more, Mr. Weller made the best of his way to his master's bedroom. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I shall be sure to come,' said Job. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- At least it can't be a put-up job, as we expected. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It'll be a good job for him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Yawler recommended me to one or two other offices, however--Mr. Waterbrook's for one--and I got a good many jobs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He's been running odd jobs, and that, for the last two months. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- After all, there were plenty of Mingott men for such jobs, and as yet he was not even a Mingott by marriage. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- There were numerous brothers and sisters, and the family pursued the French authorities with importunities for rewards and jobs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We journeymen must take jobs when we can get them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr Clennam got it him to do, and gives him odd jobs besides in at the Works next door--makes 'em for him, in short, when he knows he wants 'em. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Why, you know I don't mind hard jobs much, and there must always be one scrub in a family. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Moriarty supplied him liberally with money, and used him only in one or two very high-class jobs, which no ordinary criminal could have undertaken. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Jo helps me with the sewing, and insists on doing all sorts of hard jobs. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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