Purveyor
[pə'veɪə(r);pɜː'veɪə(r)]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
(n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
(n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Provider, caterer.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- None of the exuberant versions of things Edison has not done could endure for a moment with the simple narrative of what he has really done as the world's new Purveyor of Pleasure. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I, with an hundred men, went forward first as purveyor, taking the road of the Cote d'Or, through Auxerre, Dijon, Dole, over the Jura to Geneva. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- For some months past, Miss Pross and Mr. Cruncher had discharged the office of purveyors; the former carrying the money; the latter, the basket. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Rawdon and his wife generously gave their patronage to all such of Miss Crawley's tradesmen and purveyors as chose to serve them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- True, but as ANY good Portland cement can be used, and no restrictions as to source of supply are enforced, he, or rather his company, will be merely one of many possible purveyors. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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