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double-duty

/duhb-uhl-doo-tee, -dyoo-/US // ˈdʌb əlˈdu ti, -ˈdyu- //

双重任务,兼职,双重职责,兼任

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.

Examples

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • Our duty is to make sure that they realize that the Prophet is not avenged.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • And Ollie says, ‘Oh, I see, well, let me have two double vodka martinis.’

  • Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.

  • In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.

  • And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.

  • All things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective.

  • The way was under a double row of tall trees, which met at the top and formed a green arch over our heads.