| 单词 | man on the spot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman on the spot man on the spot n. a local official, agent, or informant of a government, company, news agency, etc., esp. in a foreign country; a person with immediate responsibility or authority; (also) a local eyewitness. ΚΠ 1746 Laws, Ordin. & Inst. Admirality Great Brit. II. x. 98 If there be no Consul, nor any other English Man on the Spot, in that case the said Goods and Effects shall be committed to the Custody of the Cadi of the said Place. 1793 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXXIV. 115 We shall have a man on the spot, cloathed with the character of an Ambassador, that we might be in a situation to treat with France. 1837 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 31 65 I also conversed with a man on the spot, for many years a resident here. 1897 I. Malcolm in R. S. Churchill W. S. Churchill (1967) I. Compan. ii. xii. 848 I write like the ‘man on the spot’ The most inconceivable rot. 1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. i. ii. 21 I always like to know what the man on the spot has to say. 1973 D. J. Boorstin Americans: Democratic Experience xliii. 390 By the late twentieth century the man on the spot, the viewer of the experience where it actually happened, began to feel confined and limited. 2008 C. Robbins Apples are from Kazakhstan viii. 246 These were not the first words I expected to hear from the BBC's man on the spot. < as lemmas |
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