核心词议:
n. 看门人;守卫;门警;清洁工
janitor 基本解释
n. 看门人;看管房屋的人;锅炉工
速记方法
速记技巧 词源记忆法 来自拉丁语ianitor,看门人,词源同January.
知识扩展
词源词缀 来自拉丁语ianitor,看门人,词源同January.January(一月)来自古罗马的门户之神Janus的名字,而该神名则来自拉丁语ianua(门);同样来自这个拉丁语的单词是janitor(门卫)。一月是一年的门户,通过理解January的本义得到词根-jan-“门”,这样janitor应该好记些。
janitor 变化形式
复数: janitors
中文词源: janitor 看门人 来自拉丁语ianitor,看门人,词源同January. janitor
精选例句
1、 Ed Roberts had been a school janitor for a long time.
埃德·罗伯茨做学校的看门人已很久了。
常见考点例句:
- The janitor gets to explain why something went wrong .
- 看门人需要解释为什么事情错了。
- The janitor outfit made people think the same face was black .
- 看门人的服装则让人觉得头像是黑人。
- I guess when the janitor let it be know that he could mop floors and wipe down blackboards he was soon busy with those tasks .
- 我想如果看门人知道他可以拖地板和擦黑板,他很快就会忙于这些工作。
- And yet , when you were in high school you may not have felt that the janitor was the most powerful representative of the school board .
- 然而,你在高中时,可不会认为看门人是校董中最权力的代表。
- Considering that watching the doors was once the job of a god , its no wonder that someone else with more power at the school board took over that role while the poor old janitor was busy with his pail .
- 考虑到看门曾一度是神的工作,这也难怪当那个可怜的老看门人正忙于他的水桶的时候,某些在学校董事会中拥有更多权力的人接管了他的任务。