constable

/'kʌnstәbl/ uk　 词频 #19092

英语专业八级英语专业四级

constable 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 治安官, 警官, 总管

[法] 警察, 警官, 巡警

英文释义

n. a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff

n. English landscape painter (1776-1837)

n. a police officer of the lowest rank

constable 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 constable 在自然语境里怎么用：

After her husband died, Betty Constable lived alone in her house on Orchard Circle in Princeton.

—— Tabula Rasa: Volume Six, by John McPhee

Betty was the champion in 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1959—Betty Constable, pleasant, humorous, graceful, formal, practical, sensible bulldog.

—— Tabula Rasa: Volume Six, by John McPhee

As Elizabeth Howe, she had grown up in New Haven, Connecticut, and was eleven years old when William Pepper Constable graduated from Princeton.

—— Tabula Rasa: Volume Six, by John McPhee

Over and over, I ran those films on our family projector, watching Pepper Constable (6'1", 191) go off-tackle, shucking Yalies, Harvards, on his way to the end zone.

—— Tabula Rasa: Volume Six, by John McPhee

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