Tenant
['tenənt] or ['tɛnənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; 'the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent'.
(noun.) any occupant who dwells in a place.
(noun.) a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease).
(verb.) occupy as a tenant.
艾伦錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
(n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
(v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
整理:马文
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Occupier, occupant, resident, dweller, lessee, renter.
芭比整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Occupant, lessee, occupier, resident, dweller
ANT:Owner, landlord, lessor
編輯:勒罗伊
解釋/意思:
n. one who holds or possesses land or property under another the payments and services which he owes to his superior constituting his tenure: one who has on certain conditions temporary possession of any place an occupant.—v.t. to hold as a tenant.—n. Ten′ancy a holding by private ownership: a temporary holding of land or property by a tenant.—adj. Ten′antable fit to be tenanted: in a state of repair suitable for a tenant.—n. Ten′ant-farm′er a farmer who rents a farm from the landlord.—adj. Ten′antless without a tenant.—ns.
黛朵錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
For a landlord to see his tenant in a dream, denotes he will have business trouble and vexation. To imagine you are a tenant, foretells you will suffer loss in experiments of a business character. If a tenant pays you money, you will be successful in some engagements.
編輯:梅森
例句/造句/用法:
- These services, therefore, being almost entirely arbitrary, subjected the tenant to many vexations. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mr. Bell has recommended me to a Mr. Thornton, a tenant of his, and a very intelligent man, as far as I can judge from his letters. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Mr. Thornton's mill must be somewhere not very far off, for he is Mr. Bell's tenant. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- She knew how each tenant of the cottages paid or owed his little rent. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- When the landlord, however, ceases to do his part, it is altogether impossible that the tenant should continue to do his. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- James came into contact with this fellow Hayes, because the man was a tenant of mine, and James acted as agent. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Tenant of a top set--bad character--shut himself up in his bedroom closet, and took a dose of arsenic. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Your tenant Moore, he went on, has won my approbation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Iridium and Osmium discovered by Tenant, and Cerium by Berzelius. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The tenants have always made a living from it, and been able to send Jane a trifle beside, each year. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The same cause gradually led them to dismiss the unnecessary part of their tenants. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Power was supplied from a fifty-horse-power engine to other tenants on the several floors. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The landlord kept going among his tenants and finally discovered the dynamo. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Our first effort must be to find who are the tenants of Charlington Hall. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- But this increase of rent could be got only by granting leases to their tenants, who thereby became, in a great measure, independent of them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- There is not one of his tenants or servants but will give him a good name. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It was a room, not unacquainted with the black ladder under various tenants; but as neat, at present, as such a room could be. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- We were all tenants of his--that man's who stands there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He quarrelled with his agents and screwed his tenants by letter. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- That the Hall is tenanted by Williamson. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The cottage is still tenanted, it said. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Unconscious that it was tenanted, he sat down on the step. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was nine o'clock, and the house, being tenanted by workers, already showed an awakened front to the street. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
整理:马库斯