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stretcher-bearer

/strech-er-bair-er/US // ˈstrɛtʃ ərˌbɛər ər //

担架员,担架工,担架手,担架兵

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who helps carry a stretcher, as in removing wounded from a battlefield.

Examples

  • And the next time his friend saw Moses, it was online; his bloody body was slapped on a stretcher.

  • There is a potential standard-bearer for the tradition shared by RFK, Gary Hart, and even Hunter S. Thompson.

  • They carry it like a stretcher, though they're missing one stretcher-bearer.

  • So why, in 2014, is the superhero standard-bearer so minority-averse?

  • Paramedics now headed into the shop with a stretcher to aid the gunman.

  • What the armor-bearer was for the warlike races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate descendants.

  • The poor devil willingly undertook to deliver it, and the marshal, as directed, caused the bearer to receive a hearty flogging.

  • The color-bearer went down, but the flag was seized by Randolph Hamilton, and held aloft.

  • Summoning a fruit-seller, the bearer led the Gwalior men to the rendezvous named and distributed mangoes amongst them.

  • The court held that the checks were not payable to bearer and that the bank was not protected in paying them.