Publican
['pʌblɪk(ə)n] or ['pʌblɪkən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.
(n.) The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.
手打:南希
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Tax-gatherer.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a publican, denotes that you will have your sympathies aroused by some one in a desperate condition, and you will diminish your own gain for his advancement. To a young woman, this dream brings a worthy lover; but because of his homeliness she will trample on his feelings unnecessarily.
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例句/造句/用法:
- It was but the day before my arrival that one of them had been most grossly insulted in the house of a publican. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Her religion must have been that of the Pharisee who thanked God that he was not as other men are, nor even as that publican. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Watson, it was no brain of a country publican that thought out such a blind as that. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I am attended by a select body of our boys; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young publican, and a sweep. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- After his return he called Matthew from the receipt of customs, performed some cures, and created scandal by eating with publicans and sinners. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
整理:诺拉