Retainer

(noun.) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment.

(noun.) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone.

安琪编辑

• Meantime the retainer goes round, like a gloomy Analytical Chemist: always seeming to say, after 'Chablis, sir? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is eminently respectable, and likewise, in a general way, retainer-like. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• This fellow was a retainer of the Sheik of Tiberias. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A fifth retainer, proceeding up the staircase with a mournful air--as who should say, 'Here is another wretched creature come to dinner; such is life! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Thus the melancholy retainer, as who should say, 'Come down and be poisoned, ye unhappy children of men! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A stout little retainer came in with chains and led them away, looking very much frightened and evidently forgetting the speech he ought to have made. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Though they lived at a distance from his house, they were equally dependent upon him as his retainers who lived in it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Their retainers became consequently less numerous, and, by degrees, dwindled away altogether. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Four pigeon-breasted retainers in plain clothes stand in line in the hall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Amidst the vast ruins of the city of Rome half-independent families of quasi-noble adventurers and their retainers maintained themselves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Unimportant people slept about anywhere as retainers did in the medi?val castles and as people still do in Indian households. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such local nobles would assemble bands of retainers and build themselves strongholds. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such a proprietor, as he feeds his servants and retainers at his own house, so he feeds his tenants at their houses. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The occupiers of land were in every respect as dependent upon the great proprietor as his retainers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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