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chaperone

/shap-uh-rohn/US // ˈʃæp əˌroʊn //

陪伴者,陪护人员,陪护员,陪护者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
    • : any adult present in order to maintain order or propriety at an activity of young people, as at a school dance.
    • : a round headdress of stuffed cloth with wide cloth streamers that fall from the crown or are draped around it, worn in the 15th century.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to attend or accompany as chaperone.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to act as chaperone.

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Examples

  • From her home in Denmark, Popal had warned players to burn their jerseys and not leave their homes — girls and women are forbidden from playing sports under the Taliban — and urged them not to leave their homes without a male chaperone.

  • Women were systematically victimized under the Taliban, dependent on male chaperones to leave their homes and unable to access education.

  • By Thursday afternoon, the tally of positive cases included 47 staff members and 29 campers or chaperones who were not working on campus, Rybka said.

  • The two were inseparable, with Culotta acting as a chaperone, staffer, and trusted confidante to Spears.

  • The high school itself was not hosting or helping, but individual teachers had volunteered as chaperones.

  • Later, after marrying a farmer, she is told that she cannot sell her vegetables at the market in Chicago without a male chaperone.

  • Posing for a picture with 49 bright-eyed students from India, mathematics teacher (turned chaperone) Mr. Uniyal looks stressed.

  • He hosted a poetry contest and a talent show, acted as a chaperone for dances, and attended football games.

  • She was a blushing bride of seventeen, a sad and stoic wife, a loving mother, an embittered chaperone, and a daughter pushed away.

  • She was accompanied to the interview with her new Scientology “chaperone.”

  • Her smile had in it some suggestion of the reserve of the chaperone.

  • And this is the room of all others to get in order, as I fancy Miss Cox, our chaperone, will occupy it.

  • "He will be along this evening with Miss Cox, our chaperone, and we want to get everything in order before he comes," said Dum.

  • "It would be a pretty piece of business for me to come down here as a chaperone and then be a baby," she said.

  • I have saved up the most important to the last:—our chaperone, Miss Cox, has gone and got herself engaged!