(adj.) having services engaged for a fee; 'hired hands'; 'a hired gun' .
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双语例句
I did not like to work; but I did as much of it, while young, as grown men can be hired to do in these days, and attended school at the same time. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
He had hired a lodging for the present in Covent Garden, and he took the nearest way to that quarter, by Snow Hill and Holborn. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
If we add hired servants the State will be complete. 柏拉图.理想国.
She denounced the war as wholesale murder, and Lord Wellington as a hired butcher. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
She has nursed me by day and a hired nurse has looked after me by night, for in my mad fits I was capable of anything. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
We had left the alehouse where we first met, and hired a room to hold our club in. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
They turned the sharp corner at the bottom towards the temporary home which Clym had hired and furnished, about five miles to the eastward. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Will Haught introduced my maid to a female servant, whom he had himself hired, and whom he desired to show her mistress's apartments to my woman. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
I hired them at Mr. Polonius's, in Coventry Street. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
This house has necessarily been hired in my name. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
An apprentice is scarce ever married; and it is expressly enacted, that no married servant shall gain any settlement by being hired for a year. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
We had no transportation for our camp and garrison equipage, so wagons were hired for the occasion and on the 3d of July we started. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
And the hired footman came, with a silent step of cold servant-like disapprobation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
This year we three graces, as we were called, hired an opera box for the season together. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
At last I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Something came into my head which induced me to run after him, as he was going down to the Jolly Bargemen, where he had left a hired carriage. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Resolved not to lose a minute in getting to Knowlesbury, I paid my bill at the hotel, and hired a fly to take me to the town. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
We hired a hansom, and in half an hour we were at the address which had been given to us. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
No boat would then be hired for the purpose, and no boatmen; that would save at least a chance of suspicion, and any chance is worth saving. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
He hired a large room between three and four hundred feet wide. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
A speculator bridged a couple of barrels with a board and we hired standing places on it. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
I hired a boat directly, and we put off to her; and getting through the little vortex of confusion of which she was the centre, went on board. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
I was almost sorry we had hired this man, his name was so unbearable. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
She hired a crossing-sweeping boy to show it her. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
Mas'r gen'ly hired him out. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
To obviate the deficiency, pack mules were hired, with Mexicans to pack and drive them. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.