emissary 的 2 个定义
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.
- Archaic. sent forth, as on a mission.
emissary 近义词
deputy
更多emissary例句
- 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.