postman

B1 CET-4 初中 FREQ #11567 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 邮递员 [法] 邮递员, 理财法庭的高级律师

发音

US
UK /ˈpəʊs(t)mən/

词形变化

postie postmen 复数 postmen

教材释义与例句

名词

邮递员;邮差

someone whose job is to collect and deliver letters

That postman is in charge of this route.

那个邮递员负责这条投递线路。

The old man often stands here to watch out for the postman.

老人常常站在这儿等邮递员。

At the door he met an intelligent postman coming out with letters for the morning delivery.

他在邮政总局门口碰见一个伶俐的邮差,拿着信从邮局走出来,去送早班信。

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.

    爱尔兰 英国

    The total of their members amounts to 342,723 for 1875. Among these number … 6,968 male and sixty-three female postmen, imperial railway, telegraph, and post officials, railway workmen, dependent boatmen, waiters, &c.; …

  2. 2.

    One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman.

    历史

词汇关系

相关短语

词源

From post + -man.

来源:wiktionary