Overseer
['əʊvəsɪə] or ['ovɚsɪr]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
吉尔达整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Superintendent, inspector, supervisor, director, BOSS.
巴纳德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Common farmers seldom employ any overseer to direct the general operations of the farm. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Nearly finished, sir, reported Dick, who was overseer. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Oh no, you won't, says our overseer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- As he wouldn't go away, and shocked the company very much, our overseer sent him out a pound of potatoes and half a pint of oatmeal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Well, one day he knocked down the overseer, and was fairly off into the swamps. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I'm none o' yer gentlemen planters, with lily fingers, to slop round and be cheated by some old cuss of an overseer! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Very good, says our overseer, taking 'em away again, you won't get anything else here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- She was brought here last night,' replied the old woman, 'by the overseer's order. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Werner's father was an overseer of iron-works, and furnished his son with mineral specimens as playthings before the chil d could pronounce their names. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I broke a fellow in, once, said St. Clare, that all the overseers and masters had tried their hands on in vain. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Overseers of Snaily parish against Crawley, Bart. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The magistrates, and overseers, and churchwardens, are always wanting his opinion. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I don't keep none o' yer cussed overseers; I does my own overseeing; and I tell you things _is_ seen to. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He'll muster some of those old overseers on the other plantations, and have a great hunt; and they'll go over every inch of ground in that swamp. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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