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单词 conductress
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Definition of conductress in English:

conductress

noun kənˈdʌktrəskənˈdəktrəs
  • A female conductor, especially in a bus or other passenger vehicle.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Meanwhile conducting slowly became a female job, even though conductresses had to cope with the same technology as drivers.
    • The most surreal presence was a black-and-white monitor of the conductor, there for the benefit of the backstage conductress to direct a chimer who had to ape the sounds of church bells.
    • Instead of pushing through the standing passengers with her heavy ticket machine, the conductress stayed near the door and invited standing passengers to pass down their fares at their leisure.
    • As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable.
    • I remember that one of us (often it was I) was selected to pay the fare to the conductress for all who entered the bus.
    • Eight of the women were employed as conductresses during the war and four more have had previous experience with other companies.
    • A neighbour once heard a passenger inform the conductress that there was an unaccompanied dog on the bus.
    • When I caught sight of this little girl, she was twisting herself round on her heel, swinging from her conductress's hand, flinging herself from side to side with wanton and fantastic gyrations.
    • However, it was alleged that, when leaving the bus, the appellant's conduct towards the conductress amounted to an offence under section 4 of the Public Order Act 1986.
    • Even the conductress will occasionally offer a helping hand to an overburdened bumpkin.
    • During World War I conductresses were issued with uniforms for the first time.
    • It was there that she met world-renowned conductor Zubin Mehta by chance at Florence Opera and then became an assistant conductress to him.
    • Unfortunately for him he was overheard by the conductress.
    • The conductress comes along, and I realise that I cannot find my ticket.
    • This was the bus everyone wanted to be aboard, and the conductress had to hold the waiting mob of travellers at bay as if they were eager teenagers waiting to board a coach on a school trip.
    • So the bus conductress wouldn't allow me to sit on the only empty double seat on the 38 because she was kneeling on it.
    • Richard Uridge trundles round the Eden Valley in Cumbria in a vintage red bus with Will Hamer, its driver, and his daughter Alison Morris, who's the conductress.

Rhymes

instructress, seductress
 
 

Definition of conductress in US English:

conductress

nounkənˈdəktrəskənˈdəktrəs
  • A female conductor, especially in a bus or other passenger vehicle.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The conductress comes along, and I realise that I cannot find my ticket.
    • Even the conductress will occasionally offer a helping hand to an overburdened bumpkin.
    • It was there that she met world-renowned conductor Zubin Mehta by chance at Florence Opera and then became an assistant conductress to him.
    • During World War I conductresses were issued with uniforms for the first time.
    • Unfortunately for him he was overheard by the conductress.
    • So the bus conductress wouldn't allow me to sit on the only empty double seat on the 38 because she was kneeling on it.
    • Richard Uridge trundles round the Eden Valley in Cumbria in a vintage red bus with Will Hamer, its driver, and his daughter Alison Morris, who's the conductress.
    • Instead of pushing through the standing passengers with her heavy ticket machine, the conductress stayed near the door and invited standing passengers to pass down their fares at their leisure.
    • Meanwhile conducting slowly became a female job, even though conductresses had to cope with the same technology as drivers.
    • However, it was alleged that, when leaving the bus, the appellant's conduct towards the conductress amounted to an offence under section 4 of the Public Order Act 1986.
    • I remember that one of us (often it was I) was selected to pay the fare to the conductress for all who entered the bus.
    • A neighbour once heard a passenger inform the conductress that there was an unaccompanied dog on the bus.
    • As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable.
    • This was the bus everyone wanted to be aboard, and the conductress had to hold the waiting mob of travellers at bay as if they were eager teenagers waiting to board a coach on a school trip.
    • When I caught sight of this little girl, she was twisting herself round on her heel, swinging from her conductress's hand, flinging herself from side to side with wanton and fantastic gyrations.
    • Eight of the women were employed as conductresses during the war and four more have had previous experience with other companies.
    • The most surreal presence was a black-and-white monitor of the conductor, there for the benefit of the backstage conductress to direct a chimer who had to ape the sounds of church bells.
 
 
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