英语词汇“errand”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	errand
释义	Trends of errand View usage for: errand (erənd) Word forms: plural errands 1. countable noun An errand is a short trip that you make in order to do a job for someone, for example when you go to a shop to buy something for them. She went off on some errand. She had a more urgent errand. Synonyms: job, charge, commission, message [Scottish] More Synonyms of errand 2. See to run an errand errand in British English (ˈɛrənd) noun 1. a short trip undertaken to perform a necessary task or commission (esp in the phrase run errands) 2. the purpose or object of such a trip Word origin Old English ǣrende; related to ār messenger, Old Norse erendi message, Old High German ārunti, Swedish ärende errand in American English (ˈɛrənd) noun 1. a trip to carry a message or do a definite thing, often esp. for someone else 2. the thing to be done on such a trip; purpose or object for which one goes or is sent Word origin ME erende < OE ærende, message, mission, news, lit., that delivered by messenger < base of ar, messenger; akin to OS ārundi, OHG ārunti Examples of 'errand' in a sentence errand She is always on at me for money and running errands. The Sun (2012) Suppose he has some urgent errand to run or a colleague suggests lunch together. The Sun (2015) The only reasons to leave the house were to run important errands or visit relatives. Times, Sunday Times (2009) People want to run errands for them. Christianity Today (2000) Does not she walk as if she were running errands? Lucy Moore Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (2006) Seeking to be so is a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Picking and choosing from such a list is a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times (2015) It would have been a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times (2014) It became clear one day that this was a fool 's errand. Larry Downes THE STRATEGY MACHINE (2002) Personnel often left meetings to run errands or fetch documents, he said. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Others claimed they had been accidentally caught up in the riots while running errands or had been trying to rescue people from the burning embassy. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Don't run errands after work. Hopkins, Tom The Guide to Greatness in Sales (1994) The singer was snapped running errands around LA in these subtle threads. The Sun (2013) The older you get, the more you realise what a fool 's errand much of that is. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The charity Counsel and Care urged the public to check on elderly neighbours and to offer them assistance with shopping and other errands. Times, Sunday Times (2010) MANY of us in business spend our lives trying to predict the future, but we are mostly on a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times (2016) To shopping and trivial errands they do not react, but if my intention is to take then for a walk, they become bouncing bundles of excitement. Times, Sunday Times (2012) In other languages errand British English: errand NOUN An errand is a short trip that you make in order to do a job for someone, for example when you go to a shop to buy something for them. She went off on some errand. American English: errand Brazilian Portuguese: incumbência Chinese: > 差使短程 European Spanish: recado French: course German: Besorgung Italian: commissione Japanese: 使い走り Korean: 심부름 European Portuguese: incumbência Latin American Spanish: mandado Chinese translation of 'errand' errand (ˈɛrənd) n (c) 差事 (chāishi) (件, jiàn) to run errands 跑腿 (pǎotuǐ) to go on an errand 跑腿 (pǎotuǐ) an errand of mercy 仁慈之行 (réncí zhīxíng) (noun) in the sense of job Definition a short trip to get or do something for someone I spent the morning running errands. Synonyms job Their main job is to preserve health rather than treat illness. charge commission She approached me with a commission to write the screen play for the film. message (Scottish) I was employed to run messages for him in 1957. task He had the unenviable task of breaking the bad news. mission He viewed his mission in life as protecting the weak from evil. Additional synonyms in the sense of commission Definition a duty given to a person or group to perform She approached me with a commission to write the screen play for the film. Synonyms duty, authority, trust, charge, task, function, mission, employment, appointment, warrant, mandate, errand in the sense of message I was employed to run messages for him in 1957. Synonyms errand, job, task, commission, mission, MSG in the sense of mission Definition a task or duty that a person believes he or she must achieve He viewed his mission in life as protecting the weak from evil. Synonyms task, work, calling, business, job, office, charge, goal, operation, commission, trust, aim, purpose, duty, undertaking, pursuit, quest, assignment, vocation, errand Nearby words of errand erotic erotica err errand errant erratic erratum Synonyms of 'errand' errand Explore 'errand' in the dictionary
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