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lackeyn. 1. running footman跑腿的男仆。 △As.3.2.315 (295):“I will speak to him like a saucy lackey,”我要像 一个无礼的下人那样去和他说话。 △H.V.4.1.292(272):“Butlike a lackey,from the rise to set,/ Sweats in the eyeof Phoebus,”而是像一个跑腿的仆役,从日出到日落,在太阳神的眼皮底下流汗干活。 2. attending servant,valet跟班,亲随。 △1H.IV.3.1.155(154): “He held me last night at least nine hoursIn reckoning up the several devils' names. That werehis lackeys.”昨晚他留住我谈了至少九个小时,一一细数那些做他侍从的各种各样魔鬼的名字。 △H.V.3.7.125 (110):“Bymy faith,sir,but it is; never anybody saw it(i.e. hiscourage) but his lackey.” i.e. he has beaten nobodybut his lackey. 说实在的,大人,他这种美德倒真是隐藏得好;因为除了他的亲随仆人以外,谁也没有看见过他到底多么勇敢。 △H.VIII.5.2.17(18):“Mong (= Among) boys,grooms,and lackeys.”让我待在小厮、仆役和跟班中间。 3. hanger-on,camp follower跟随者,随军杂役。 △R.III.5.3.318 (317): “A scum of Britains and base lackey peasants,”一批布列塔尼人中的渣滓和下贱的随军村夫。 |