单词 | apprenticeship |
释义 | apprenticeshipn. 1. The position of an apprentice; service in the capacity of an apprentice; initiatory training, under legal agreement, in a trade, etc.; esp. in the phrase to serve apprenticeship. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > apprenticeship apprenticehood1377 prenticehoodc1390 prenticeship1444 prenticehead1463 prenticewickc1490 bondage1583 prenticeage1584 tirociny1600 bachelorship1611 apprenticeship1617 apprenticeagea1626 tirocinium1654 servitude1688 apprenticement1822 Lehrjahre1865 indentureship1878 society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > apprentice > condition of apprenticehood1377 apprenticeship1617 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Pref. 8 Holding them in more base subiection then their Masters euer did in their Apprentiships. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 124 During the continuance of the apprenticeship, the whole labour of the apprentice belongs to his master. View more context for this quotation 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 625 Prince George..was serving his apprenticeship in the military art. 2. transferred or figurative. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > training > [noun] > initiatory training apprenticeship1592 1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D2v Such as onely ayme at your faire lookes, tye but their loues to an apprentishippe of beauty. 1655 R. Baker et al. tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 46 On whose banks the Romans have performed the Apprentiships of their rare victories. 1862 F. M. Müller in Sat. Rev. 13 Dec. 714/2 Men who have passed through a regular apprenticeship in Sanskrit grammar. 3. The period for which an apprentice is bound. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > apprenticeship > period of apprenticeshipa1667 a1667 A. Cowley Liberty in Wks. (1710) II. 677 This is but a short Apprenticeship, after which we are made free of a Royal Company. 1759 S. Johnson Idler 10 Mar. 73 Three months after the expiration of his apprenticeship. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. x. 191 That long apprenticeship of sorrow. 4. Hence: A period of seven years. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > of office, study, or occupation > period of apprenticeship apprenticeship1780 1780 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 506 Two apprenticeships have past since my dearest Mrs. Dewes celebrated her birth-day here. 1836 T. Hood Coming of Age in Comic Ann. 83 Three 'prenticeships have past away..Since I was bound to life! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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