英语单词 | servant |
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英美音标 | ['sə:vənt] |
中文释义 | n.仆人 |
vocab简明 | A servant works at someone’s home, often doing lowly tasks. You might feel like a servant when your mom insists that you do the dishes before you can do anything fun, but think how she feels cooking dinner every day! |
vocab扩展 | If you’re a servant, you serve someone else. In that 1930s mystery novel, chances are the rich family had servants to set the table and do the laundry. Nowadays, calling someone who does those things a servant has an insulting connotation. If you think your hard work gets no respect, you might feel like a servant. But people who work for the government like to be called "public servants," because they serve the good of public and not themselves. |
真题原句 | If the trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa were alive today, he would probably represent civil servant. |
柯林斯星级 | ★★★☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]仆人;用人 A servant is someone who is employed to work at another person's home, for example as a cleaner or a gardener. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]See also:civil servant ;提供服务的人(或事物);可以利用的人(或事物) You can use servant to refer to someone or something that provides a service for people or can be used by them.
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来源 | 2012.4 |
Tags: 单词::2012
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