Warden
['wɔːd(ə)n] or ['wɔrdn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
(n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
(n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
(n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.
整理:莱斯利
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Keeper, guardian, warder, custodian, curator, superintendent.
黛娜編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a kind of pear.—Warden pie a pie made of warden pears.
塞西莉亚校對
例句/造句/用法:
- In a few years, when he grew stouter, he would be made a warden. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Dr. Wilkns, the brother-in-law of Cromwell, who is regarded by some as the founder of the Royal Society, remove d to Oxford, as Warden of Wadham, in 1649. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- It's not the warden's fault, you know, sir. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He caught Fangs strolling in the forest, and said he chased the deer contrary to his master's right, as warden of the walk. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Fraulein handed the coffee, everybody smoked cigarettes, or else long warden pipes of white clay, of which a sheaf was provided. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
加勒特錄入