| 释义 |
‖ mozo Latin America.|ˈmoθo|
[Sp.]
1. A male servant or attendant; a groom; a labourer.
1836C. J. Latrobe Rambler in Mexico 49 The remainder were sent in advance under his domestics or mozos. 1847G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. vii. 48, I at length hired a mozo to proceed with me as far as Durango. 1904Conrad Nostromo i. viii. 107 But Captain Mitchell's right-hand man..after looking down critically at the ragged mozo, shook his head. 1923Blackw. Mag. July 46/2 The mozo, the ostler lad,..was a son of the house. 1936A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xli. 495 The mozos had loaded their baggage on to the pack-mules. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions iii. iii. 819 It turned out that the Señorito had asked the same question, and fled directly he got this same answer, leaving this mozo behind, to chat with her.
2. A bull-fighter's attendant.
1926[see espada]. 1934H. Baerlein Belmonte the Matador iii. 37 Every matador has got a valet, his mozo de estoques, whose important days are those on which there is a fight, not only in the dressing of his master but the duties of attendance..at the ring-side, preparing the muletas and handing to his master the swords as he requires them. Ibid. 38 Antonio Conde..undertook the part of mozo which he kept throughout the years. 1963Parade (Austral.) Dec. 47/1 Meijas had to start at the bottom of the ladder as a ‘mozo’, the attendant who waits on a matador. 1967McCormick & Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado iv. 146 Mozo(s), the badly paid and often brave ring-attendants who clean up the mess, accompany the picador on foot, [etc.]. |