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swain

/sweyn/US // sweɪn //UK // (sweɪn) //

斯韦恩,萧山

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a male admirer or lover.
    • : a country lad.
    • : a country gallant.

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Examples

  • All five remain free on bail, at least until U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain sentences them in late July.

  • Meanwhile, in Texas two days after the election, Mario Swain became the 13th person executed in the state this year.

  • After two hearings in New York last week that were at times comic, Judge Swain fashioned a compromise.

  • He turned to the foot-swain who stood at his side: “ Fetch hither five horse-whips,” King Valdemar cried.

  • The more costly the musical ingredients, the greater the swain's devotion!

  • Half-past eight oclock was the time appointed by Mary to see her swain, and the constables took care to be as punctual as he.

  • Before the House Mr. Swain spoke only under extraordinary emotion, and then he gained every ear.

  • Mr. Swain had bought the dwelling from an aged man with a history, dead some nine years back.