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errand

/er-uhnd/US // ˈɛr ənd //UK // (ˈɛrənd) //

差事,差役,差使,任务

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else.
    • : the purpose of such a trip: He finished his errands.
    • : a special mission or function entrusted to a messenger; commission.

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Examples

  • If you’ve just arrived home after a walk, a work shift, or running errands, wash your hands with soap and water before you touch your mask.

  • Other than running errands, they rarely left the house and never ate inside a restaurant during the pandemic.

  • They last for 30 to 40 minutes, so they’re the perfect companion for a brisk morning walk or a quick errand.

  • Then there’s this added thing of, when I do have energy, I can’t go out and run my errands.

  • Once Alvarez returns from that errand, her mother often has to head out herself, so the 17-year-old settles down to take care of the children for the rest of the afternoon.

  • He demonstrated that he had the makings of a future Marine after his mother sent him on a last minute errand to a nearby deli.

  • In the Bible angels are mostly errand boys, the word itself means "messenger."

  • At the start of the game he is been sent to the fantastic city of Columbia on an errand: to find a girl and have his debt cleaned.

  • It's a fool's errand when the general electorate is trending in favor of more government.

  • It is, increasingly, the received wisdom in the West that nation building is a fool's errand.

  • The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.

  • A simple errand and promenade,--and yet she felt herself to be steeped in the romance of an adventure!

  • One evening, rather more than a week after the marriage, Hedges had been on an errand to Calne, and was hastening home.

  • A few words explained his errand; but the brave Englishman would hardly hear it to the end.

  • Except for their sad errand, both Felipe and Aunt Ri would have experienced a keen delight in this ascent.