clerk

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n. 办事员, 职员, 文书 vi. 当店员

发音

UK /klɑːk/
US /klɝk/
AU /klɐːk/
AU /klɜːk/

词形变化

clerks 复数 clerks clerked clerking clerks 三单 clerking 现在分词 clerked 过去式 clerked 过去分词

别名

clerke clark

教材释义与例句

名词

职员,办事员;店员;书记;记账员;<古>牧师,教士

someone who keeps records or accounts in an office

动词

当销售员,当店员;当职员

to work as a clerk

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

    书记

    店员

    营业员

    文员

  2. 2.

    One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

    A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.

  3. 3.

    One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

    A law clerk.

  4. 4.

    One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

    An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.

  5. 5.

    One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

    The chief legal advisor of a legislature or legislative chamber, who is usually also responsible for keeping minutes of sittings.

  6. 6.

    A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.

  7. 7.

    In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk and Bible clerk).

    古体
  8. 8.

    A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).

    过时
  9. 9.

    A scholar.

    废旧

    13th century, Traditional carol, And all was for an appel, an appel that he toke/As clerkès finden written in their boke.

v.
  1. 1.

    To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.

    The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.

    1956, Jean Stafford, "A Reading Problem" in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984, p. 332, In the winter, they lived in a town called Hoxie, Arkansas, where Evangelist Gerlash clerked in the Buttorf drugstore and preached and baptized on the side.

  2. 2.

    To assemble information about a patient during their initial assessment by actions such as a taking a detailed medical history and performing a physical examination.

    医学

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English clerc, from Old English clerc, from Late Latin clēricus (“priest, clergyman, cleric”, also generally “learned man, clerk”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós, “of the clergy”, adj. in church jargon), from κλῆρος (klêros, “lot, inheritance”, originally “shard used in casting lots”). Doublet of cleric. Compare typologically Russian дьяк (dʹjak) (akin to дья́кон (dʹjákon)).

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