Suitor
['suːtə] or ['sʊtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
(n.) Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.
(n.) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc.
(n.) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.
约西亚整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Solicitor, petitioner, applicant, suppliant, supplicant.[2]. Wooer, lover, gallant.
編輯:史蒂夫
例句/造句/用法:
- The suitor, kissing the hem of the garment again before relinquishing it, replied, Habraham Latharuth, on thuthpithion of plate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Is sought by any other suitor? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- You will see Fred so changed, she added, turning to the other suitor; we have looked to Mr. Lydgate as our guardian angel during this illness. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The suitor had to undergo an interrogatory and a scrutiny on many things. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- My niece has chosen another suitor--has chosen him, you know. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Well, she would not be too eager in this case; she would give her suitor a longer taste of suspense. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It may be true that he once thought her handsome: does she give him out as still her suitor? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I understand equally well, that a word from her father in any suitor's favour, would outweigh herself and all the world. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Gridley, a disappointed suitor, has been here to-day and has been alarming. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A suitor, my child. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The suitor turned away and had left the room, when the gentleman with the gun called out 'Mister! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Either the suit must be ended, Esther, or the suitor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Sam approached with as good a determination to pay court as did ever suitor after a vacant place at St. James' or Washington. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Another suitor might feel jealousy while he touched this string; but my firm purpose cannot be changed by a passion so childish and so hopeless. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Who could be this new suitor? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Besides, it was said that in former years they had been rival suitors of the same lady. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- However, had they been married, they would no doubt by their severity as husbands have made up for their softness as suitors; and so will you, I fear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There's no now for us suitors. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He had none of the humble reverence which seemed to subdue most of her suitors; he saw her more as she really was than the rest did. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and flatterers: in less than a month, my image will be effaced from her heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Other suitors will come, therefore, if Dr. Bretton is refused. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Duties of the same kind upon law proceedings fall upon the suitors. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
編輯:诺拉