on duty 的定义
- At one's post, at work, as in The new nurse was on duty that evening, or The watchman was fired because he was drunk on duty. [Mid-1600s] The antonym, off duty, means “not engaged in one's work,” as in Captain Smith was much more amiable when he was off duty. [Mid-1800s]
on duty 近义词
working
更多on duty例句
- In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
- Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
- Our duty is to make sure that they realize that the Prophet is not avenged.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
- And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.
- Each did his duty, or was adjured to do it, in the "state of life to which it had pleased God to call him."
- The dead bodies of the two men were guarded until next day, for justice to do its duty.
- That alone is being sent to your Majesty as a report, in order to inform you of everything, as is my duty.
- His duty it was to stand at the head of the scalding trough, watch in hand, to "time" the length of the scald, crying "Hog in!"