Undertaker

(n.) One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.

(n.) One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.

(n.) Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.

编辑:维姬

• He trembled pitifully as the undertaker's man was arranging his crape draperies around him. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Ah, there's promptness,' said the undertaker. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Bayton,' said the undertaker, looking from the scrap of paper to Mr. Bumble. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• So they are,' said the undertaker. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He would have no RAISON D'ETRE if there were no lugubrious miseries in the world, as an undertaker would have no meaning if there were no funerals. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The merchant is commonly a bold, a country gentleman a timid undertaker. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I say you'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' repeated Mr. Bumble, tapping the undertaker on the shoulder, in a friendly manner, with his cane. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• No more they have,' acquiesced the undertaker. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Mr. Bumble grasped the undertaker by the arm, and led him into the building. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It reminded me too painfully of that San Francisco undertaker who used to go to sick-beds with his watch in his hand and time the corpse. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The whole capital of the undertaker of every work is necessarily divided between his fixed and his circulating capital. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• So it is,' acquiesced the undertaker. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• They afford some profit to the undertaker of the work, but no rent to the landlord. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The undertaker offered no reply to this raving; but producing a tape from his pocket, knelt down for a moment by the side of the body. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He might have been a parson, or an undertaker--or anything else you like, except what he really was. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Neither are the profits of the undertakers of silver mines commonly very great in Peru. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Wot 'ud become of the undertakers vithout it, Sammy? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Undertakers let the furniture of funerals by the day and by the week. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But such traders and undertakers would surely be most inconvenient debtors to such a bank. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Those traders and other undertakers, having got so much assistance from banks and bankers, wished to get still more. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Even the making of it is so, as it may be contracted for with undertakers, at so much a mile, and so much a lock. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Mr. Cruncher did not assist at the closing sports, but had remained behind in the churchyard, to confer and condole with the undertakers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Others are used by newsboys, egg farmers, housewives, undertakers, dentists, judges in automobile races, and by persons in a thousand different lines of business. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:贾斯廷