manciple

英式音标：['mænsɪpl]

美式音标：['mænsəpəl]

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概况：

n. 伙食委员

词义：

n.

伙食委员；

英英释义

Manciple

A manciple is a person in charge of the purchase and storage of food at an institution such as a college, monastery, or court of law. Manciples were sometimes also in charge of catering more generally, including food preparation.

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用法：

权威例句

The "Manciple's Tale": Parody and Critique

Treason in the "Manciple's Tale"

Chaucer's "Manciple's Tale"and the Poetics of Guile

Chaucer's Poetics and the Manciple's Tale

Language and the Real: Chaucer's Manciple

The Manciple's Servant Tongue: Politics and Poetry in the Canterbury Tales

Thinking upon the Crow: The "Manciple's Tale"and Ovidian Mythography

The Silences of Pilgrimage: "Manciple's Tale, Paradiso, Anticlaudianus"

Friendship, Association and Service in The Manciple's Tale

The Death of a Silent Woman: Voice and Power in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale

英语词源：

manciple

manciple: see emancipate

manciple (n.)

"officer or servant who purchases provisions for a college, monastery, etc.," early 13c., from Old French mancipe "servant, official, manciple," from Latin mancipium "servant, slave, slave obtained by legal transfer; the legal purchase of a thing," literally "a taking in hand," from manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)) + root of capere "to take" (see capable).

造句：

1. A series of setbacks have put the whole project in jeopardy.

一系列的挫折使整个项目面临失败。

来自柯林斯例句

2. His foolish behaviour may put his whole future in jeopardy.

他愚蠢的行为可能毁了他一生的前程.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. Jeopardy is a perfect example.

杰帕迪(jeopardy)--智力竞赛就是一例.

来自互联网

4. Such a step will, of course, place your credIt'standing in serious jeopardy.

当然, 这样一种措施使贵方的信用处于严重的危机之中.

来自辞典例句

5. The villagers'lives were in jeopardy during the blizzard.

暴风雪肆虐期间,村民们的生命处于危险之中.

来自辞典例句

[ jeopardy 造句 ]