Settler
['setlə] or ['sɛtlɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country.
(noun.) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
(noun.) a negotiator who settles disputes.
手打:胡里奥--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
(n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
(n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
(n.) A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
整理:米莉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Colonist.
费理斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Rifle, the Weapon of the American Settler, and the Revolution. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- This can surely be regarded in the light of a settler. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The rifle with a long barrel and its flint-lock was a favourite weapon of the American settler. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- To the west of the thirteen states stretched limitless lands into which settlers were now pushing in ever-increasing numbers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Settlers in the newer portions of the country are often deprived of many comforts which are easily accessible in long-settled places. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- All those colonies had established themselves in countries inhabited by savage and barbarous nations, who easily gave place to the new settlers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Well, we'll have to get more settlers, that's all. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Settlers, too, came from distant counties, some with an alarming novelty of skill, others with an offensive advantage in cunning. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The earliest French settlers in Canada were Basque, and Basque names are frequent among the French Canadians to this day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Britain was at peace and flushed with successes; it seemed an admirable opportunity for settling accounts with these recalcitrant settlers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To the expectation of finding gold and silver mines, those first settlers, too, joined that of discovering a north-west passage to the East Indies. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He came of a line of resourceful, fearless Scotch-Irish settlers, bone of the bone and sinew of the sinew of those generations that laid the broad foundations of the United States. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Almost the first outspoken utterances against negro slavery came from German settlers in Pennsylvania. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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