errand
英['erənd] 美['erənd]
1.（短程的）差事;跑腿
Anerrand is a short trip that you make in order to do a job for someone, for example when you go to a shop to buy something for them.
errand的意思
e.g. She went off on someerrand...
她办事去了。
e.g. She had a more urgenterrand.
她有一个更加紧急的差事要办。
2.为…跑腿；为…办事
If yourun an errand for someone, you do or get something for them, usually by making a short trip somewhere.
e.g. She was forever running errands for her housebound grandmother...
她总是在为她不方便外出的祖母跑前跑后。
e.g. Frank drifted into running dodgy errands for a seedy local villain.
弗兰克开始为当地一个下流的恶人跑腿做坏事。
1. 差事：1987年6月,<>杂志发表了一篇雷蒙德卡佛(Raymond Carver)的短篇小说,名叫<>(errand). 熟悉卡佛的读者发现,这篇小说与作者以往的作品有很大不同. 卡佛笔下的典型人物一直是那些中下层美国人,他们居住在无名的城镇,
2. errand的意思
2. 差使：current 当前的 |errand 差使 | error 错误
3. 任务：errancy 犯错 |errand 任务 |errand-boy 役童
4. 出差：err 犯错 |errand 出差 | error 错误
He often runs errands for his grandmother.
他经常给他的祖母跑腿儿。
Her boss sent her on an errand into town.
老板派她进城办事去了。
She was forever running errands for her housebound grandmother...
她总是在为她不方便外出的祖母跑前跑后。
Frank drifted into running dodgy errands for a seedy local villain.
弗兰克开始为当地一个下流的恶人跑腿做坏事。
She had a more urgent errand.
她有一个更加紧急的差事要办。
She went off on some errand...
她办事去了。
Send a wise man on errand. and say nothing to him.
派遣智者去出差. 不须反复作交待.
Passepartout went on his errand enchanted.
路路通当时就很高兴地去了.
The boy quickly went on an errand with money clasped in his hands.
男孩手里握着钱快速地跑出去买东西.
It was a fool's errand and there wasn't any gold to be found.
这是徒劳的工作,根本找不到黄金.
How could you make an intelligent student do such an errand?
你怎么能让一个天才学生去做这种差事?
But Brasi had come on the usual errand.
但是,布拉西这次倒是为了完成一项正常任务.
This is the errand of the eye Out upon the Bay.
是港湾外的眼必须探询的任务.
While he was hurrying off on his honest errand, what was she doing?
他抓紧时间做老实事的时候, 她做什么 呢 ?
Sue: I had to 1 run an errand. How was your first class with Herbert?
苏: 我得去办点事. 你跟赫伯特的第一堂课上得 如何 ?
But too many people are easily sidetracked by the laundry, their kids, a quick errand.
但是有很多人会因为洗衣服 、 孩子和突发状况不能集中精神.
The nature of her errand he could not divine.
对于她为何而来,他无法推测.
He ran an errand for me.
他替我出了一次差.
Their strange errand an excitement among the people, which penetrated to the palace of King Herod.
他们奇特的目的惊动了全城的人; 这风声也传入了希律王的宫中.
Unable to get about, she sent Joy on one errand after another.
她自己动不了窝,便派小福子一趟八趟的去买东西.
Towards her mother, too, Pearl's errand as a messenger of anguish was fulfilled.
珠儿作为痛苦使者的角色,对她母亲来说, 也彻底完成了.
I want'ee to go on an errand for me.
俺要你去给俺送个信儿.
The businessment started out as an errand boy at the age of 14 in a firm.
这位大企业家从14岁时起就在一家商行里当听差.
Within Let me come in, and you shall know my errand; I come from Lady Juliet.
(在内)我进来, 你就可以知道我的来意; 我是从朱丽叶小姐那里来的.
Will you mind waiting just a few minutes till I finish my errand in this store?
我在这商店办点事,你能等我一会儿 吗 ?
I went for an interview yesterday, but a fool's errand. The job had already been filled.
我昨天去应徵工作, 可是白费工夫,因为已经有人录取了.
Many believed this was a fool's errand.
许多人认为这是徒劳的.
She would interrupt the applicant and wheel across the floor on some imaginary errand.
她会打断申请者的谈话,装出有事要做的样子,坐着轮椅穿过房间.
Can you fill in for me for a few minutes? I have to run an errand.
你能代替我几分钟 吗 ?我必须去办点事.
He had been such a long time already on his errand that he dismissed the thought.
他在路上已经耽搁太久,不得不打消了这个念头.
Tel your King, from me, this errand.
出自：R. Stanyhurst