| 单词 | courier |
| 释义 | courier (once / 942 pages) n A courier is a person you trust with delivering important messages or packages. Let your mail carrier deliver your credit card bill and the form letter from the “Save the Orchids” foundation, but trust a courier with your book contract or birth certificate. Couriers are in a hurry. Do they saunter up your driveway the way a mail carrier does? No! Couriers are clearly on important business; they’re jogging. The word comes from a Latin word, currere, meaning “to run.” Nowadays, you might see couriers on bicycles, however, weaving in and out of traffic to deliver your messages on time. WORD FAMILYcourier: couriers USAGE EXAMPLES“It just kind of struck a nerve with me,” said Kevin Cooney, a voter from The Courier Times in Bucks County, Pa. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Greaves, 23 in 1989, who now runs a courier company in his native Heswall, said the verdicts lifted a weight of 27 years. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Once a month, a courier from Brinkmann would arrive at her front door with two cartons of cigarettes. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) n a person who carries a message Syn|Hypo|Hyper messenger conveyer, conveyor a person who conveys (carries or transmits) dispatch ridera messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle) herald, trumpeter(formal) a person who announces important news bearera messenger who bears or presents errand boy, messenger boya boy who earns money by running errands process-serversomeone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant runnera person who is employed to deliver messages or documents page, pageboya boy who is employed to run errands traveler, traveller a person who changes location |
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