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dollar-a-year

/dol-er-uh-yeer/US // ˈdɒl ər əˈyɪər //

一年一美元,一年一美元的,一年一元,美元一年

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or being an official or employee, especially a federal appointee, who receives a token annual salary, usually of one dollar: a dollar-a-year man.

Examples

  • However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.

  • The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • Grindr introduced the feature themselves in October the same year and called it ‘tribes.’

  • In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.

  • In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.

  • Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

  • The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.

  • Twice a year the formal invitation was sent out by the old nobleman to his only son, and to his two nephews.

  • He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!