Sexton
['sekst(ə)n] or ['sɛkstən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects.
(noun.) United States poet (1928-1974).
芭比整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
杰西卡校對
解釋/意思:
n. an officer who has charge of a church attends the clergyman digs graves &c.: a burying-beetle.—ns. Sex′ton-bee′tle a coleopterous insect of the genus Necrophorus; Sex′tonship the office of a sexton.
雅克校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I saw them stop near the church and speak to the sexton's wife, who had come from the cottage, and had waited, watching us from a distance. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- About an old sexton, that the good people down here suppose to have been carried away by goblins. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I say the best prison is that which is made by the sexton--no dungeon like a church-vault! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The cloud settled upon the picture, and concealed it from the sexton's view. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- His poor clerk and sexton delighted in him; the noble patron of his living esteemed him highly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The other looked towards the stone quarry in which the sexton's cottage was built. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- No living creature was visible or audible--no bird flew by me, no dog barked from the sexton's cottage. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She was ready enough to talk, and almost the first words she said informed me that her husband filled the two offices of clerk and sexton. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The goblin leered maliciously at the terrified sexton, and then raising his voice, exclaimed-- '“And who, then, is our fair and lawful prize? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Father got made a sexton by being umble. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He was a sexton. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Newland Archer, at a signal from the sexton, had come out of the vestry and placed himself with his best man on the chancel step of Grace Church. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
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