Undertaker
['ʌndəteɪkə] or ['ʌndɚtekɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
(n.) One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.
(n.) Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.
編輯:维姬
例句/造句/用法:
- He trembled pitifully as the undertaker's man was arranging his crape draperies around him. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Ah, there's promptness,' said the undertaker. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Bayton,' said the undertaker, looking from the scrap of paper to Mr. Bumble. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- So they are,' said the undertaker. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He would have no RAISON D'ETRE if there were no lugubrious miseries in the world, as an undertaker would have no meaning if there were no funerals. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The merchant is commonly a bold, a country gentleman a timid undertaker. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I say you'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' repeated Mr. Bumble, tapping the undertaker on the shoulder, in a friendly manner, with his cane. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- No more they have,' acquiesced the undertaker. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Mr. Bumble grasped the undertaker by the arm, and led him into the building. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It reminded me too painfully of that San Francisco undertaker who used to go to sick-beds with his watch in his hand and time the corpse. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The whole capital of the undertaker of every work is necessarily divided between his fixed and his circulating capital. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- So it is,' acquiesced the undertaker. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- They afford some profit to the undertaker of the work, but no rent to the landlord. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The undertaker offered no reply to this raving; but producing a tape from his pocket, knelt down for a moment by the side of the body. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He might have been a parson, or an undertaker--or anything else you like, except what he really was. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Neither are the profits of the undertakers of silver mines commonly very great in Peru. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Wot 'ud become of the undertakers vithout it, Sammy? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Undertakers let the furniture of funerals by the day and by the week. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But such traders and undertakers would surely be most inconvenient debtors to such a bank. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Those traders and other undertakers, having got so much assistance from banks and bankers, wished to get still more. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Even the making of it is so, as it may be contracted for with undertakers, at so much a mile, and so much a lock. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mr. Cruncher did not assist at the closing sports, but had remained behind in the churchyard, to confer and condole with the undertakers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Others are used by newsboys, egg farmers, housewives, undertakers, dentists, judges in automobile races, and by persons in a thousand different lines of business. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
校對:贾斯廷