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mailman

/meyl-man/US // ˈmeɪlˌmæn //UK // (ˈmeɪlˌmæn) //

邮递员,投递员,邮差,邮政员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mail·men.

    • : a person employed by the post office to deliver mail; mail carrier.

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Examples

  • He has been our mailman for years, but his workday and mine overlapped and I rarely saw him.

  • As one veteran of the Swiss banking giant tells Fortune, “If you had worked for UBS in those days, the mailman would grumble at you.”

  • My mailman, David, is the sunny-faced sort who brightens my block each afternoon, no matter the weather, with a glowing smile.

  • “He was my personal mailman,” says Mychal McNicholas of Rockaway.

  • He was a letter carrier unlike any other, or perhaps exactly like the iconic mailman of another era.

  • The red mailman may be in the spring of his political life, but he already knows how to deliver the message of discontent.

  • About 1910, however, a mailman was provided by the post office, though he still worked under the charge of the Chief Librarian.

  • I am very glad I wish Edward was here, but the mailman may bring me a letter from him this morning.

  • I knew that in all probability we should have no visitors for ten or eleven days until the mailman came.

  • “Here the mailman comes at last,” she sighed in relief, as she saw the man turn in at the house next door.

  • "'Tis Her Majesty's mail, b'y," Billy could hear the mailman say.

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