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词汇 butler
释义 butler
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbʌt.lər/ us /ˈbʌt.lɚ/
the most important male servant in a house, usually responsible for organizing the other servants男管家
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Examples from literature

Ashe heard the butler moving in the hall and summoned him. 
She had not long been in the cottage when the butler arrived. 
Then the butler entered the room: "Some one wishes to speak to your ladyship on the telephone, immediately," he said. 
Two men were standing there, hat in hand whispering to the butler. 
We have all had quite enough of him,' said her ladyship, as the butler announced dinner. 

butler | American Dictionary


butler
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbʌt·lər/
the most important male servant in a house:
The British butler was brilliantly played by Anthony Hopkins.

Examples of butler


butler
Other household chores are handled by the butler, bearer or boy; the second-boy, house-boy, verandah-boy, room-boy, room-service-boy, and dressing-boy (where boy means 'male servant').
The relationship between the butler and his master has been most fruitful in this respect.
Butler's (1997) analysis of hate speech can perhaps shed light on this issue.
Butler also noted that people of all ages may question their identity and use their past as a source of guidance from time to time.
Butler identifies the most prominent biological theories that help to explain cooperation in social dilemmas (see sect. 7 of the target article).
Butler argued that reminiscence and life review are a normal and essential part of ageing.
Butler's lessons were numerous and often overlapped, but his principal ' political ' and ' administrative ' conclusions can be categorized under six principal headers.
Butler saw this reorganization as producing a wide array of potential outcomes.
Butler's true sparkle is saved for the machine.
Wine not on the table, but handed by the butler, as it is asked for.
Butler's ideas concerning life review provide an important startingpoint for the current view of reminiscence as beneficial and possibly necessary to mental health.
Butler claimed that self-awareness, even if painful, was necessary for mental health.
Butler's book makes a major contribution to the multi-faceted issues of innovation and reform in eighteenth-century opera after 1750.
Butler states that religious persecution depended to a large extent on the balance of local political forces.
As they collect these items of evidence (as the police take them to be), the police, quite properly, begin to think that the butler did it.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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