| 英语单词 | staff |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [stɑːf] 美 [stæf] |
| 中文释义 | n.员工;全体人员;全体职员;拐杖;杆;棒;五线谱 vt.配备员工 |
| 英语例句 | (1) I find the hotel staff particularly courteous. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 我发现饭店员工特别谦恭有礼。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Staff means everyone who works at a particular place. You might suspect that the town library's not a very fun place to work if its staff is always incredibly cranky every time you visit. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Staff refers to all of the employees at a business, or especially a school, where the teachers as a group are called "the staff." A completely different meaning of staff is a long wooden stick or rod, particularly one that has a specific purpose — like a walking stick or a weapon. This is the original meaning of staff, from the Old English stæf. It wasn't until the nineteenth century that the word staff was used to mean "group of employees." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT-COLL 可数集合名词]See also:Chief of Staff ;(一组织的)全体工作人员,全体,职员 The staff of an organization are the people who work for it.
2 [N-PLURAL 复数名词](全体工作人员中的)部分成员 People who are part of a particular staff are often referred to as staff .
3 [VERB 动词]由…担任工作人员;由…供职 If an organization is staffed by particular people, they are the people who work for it. [ [ [V-ed] [usu passive]
staffed See also: short-staffed ;
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词](结实的)杖,杆 A staff is a strong stick or pole. 5 五线谱 A staff is the five lines that music is written on. [AM 美] in BRIT, use 英国英语用 stave |
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