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emissary

/em-uh-ser-ee/US // ˈɛm əˌsɛr i //UK // (ˈɛmɪsərɪ, -ɪsrɪ) //

使者,特使,代表,传令官

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural em·is·sar·ies.

    • : a representative sent on a mission or errand: emissaries to negotiate a peace.
    • : an agent sent on a mission of a secret nature, as a spy.
    • : Anatomy. sending or coming out, as certain veins that pass through the skull and connect the venous sinuses inside with the veins outside.
    • : pertaining to an emissary.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. sent forth, as on a mission.

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Examples

  • Like their queen’s emissaries, RNA molecules carry out the instructions for protein assembly, catalyze reactions, and perform other duties, keeping their cellular dominion in good health.

  • They are emissaries of Earth, little metal spores from Earth.

  • He protested Mann’s mission and warned that American policymakers “were exposing their emissary to be treated as a spy.”

  • Infused with social media–savvy prose and all the latest tech fads—from cryptocurrency to brain-computer interfaces—the story unfolds through retelling from the alternating points of view of an alien emissary’s closest friends.

  • Instead, he sent mid-level emissaries to assure the solicitous officials his company would sort things on its own.

  • Hay was the foppish “smiling emissary” whose conversational skills could make petitioners forget they came to see the president.

  • The FBI has described Mostafa as an emissary for Zawahiri in Somalia.

  • Jamal tried to visit the al Qaeda master in Pakistan, he writes, but had to send an emissary instead.

  • It came a day before his special emissary on Palestinian affairs, Tzippi Livni, met with John Kerry in Washington.

  • When the emissary phoned him to say the fee had been refused, he said he had meetings and could not talk.

  • The consequence was, the disappointed emissary of these double treasons, immediately accused him of his own crimes.

  • Father Gavazzi, an emissary of the pope to America, caused a riot by his preaching at Montreal.

  • Here was a spy from "the crowd," an emissary of "the modern."

  • Napoleon has sent the man on as an emissary, but Delessart will not allow him to speak.

  • In reply to this Sapazani and his induna put a number of questions to the emissary, as the way of natives is.