billet
billet 英 [ˈbɪlɪt] 美 [ˈbɪlɪt]
n. 兵舍；军营；工作职位 vt. 给（部队）安排住处
进行时:billeting 过去式:billetted 过去分词:billetted 第三人称单数:billets 名词复数:billets
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- n. 兵舍；军营；工作职位
- vt. 给（部队）安排住处
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1. Worse, China’s private-equity industry has become another lucrative billet for the children of powerful officials.
更糟的是，中国私募行业又一次成为了高官子女轻松获利的天堂。
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2. Yes, there are mothers who billet grown-up daughters in the same bed as their boyfriends, but I don't view them as being more ‘reasonable’ than you, they just take a more liberal view.
没错，事实上有很多母亲把她们的女儿和男朋友安排的同一张床上，但是我觉得她们也没比你“理智”多少，她们只不过是有更开放的想法。
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3. It's not a billet doux which says 'Darling, you were marvellous last night', but it is a letter to a very close friend of hers in which she compares the death of someone to the death of her husband.
信是女王写给自己最好的朋友的。 从信的内容来看，她把一个人的死看成是丈夫的死，可见他们之间的关系何等亲密。
- billet (n.1) "short, thick stick of wood used for fuel," mid-15c., from Middle French billette, diminutive of bille "stick of wood," from Medieval Latin billia "tree, trunk," which is possibly from Gaulish (compare Irish bile "tree trunk").
- billet (n.2) "small paper, short document, note," mid-15c., earlier "an official register, roll, or record" (late 13c.), from Anglo-French billette "list, schedule," diminutive of bille "written statement" (see bill (n.1)) with -let.
- billet (v.) 1590s, "to assign quarters to, to direct (a soldier) by note to a lodging place," from a noun meaning "a ticket given by a military officer directing a person to whom it is addressed to provide board and lodging for the soldier carrying it" (1640s). This was a specific use of the word, which earlier meant merely "official record or register" (late 13c.), from Anglo-French billette "list, schedule," diminutive of bille "written statement" (see bill (n.1)) with -let. From 1830 in the sense "place where a soldier is lodged." Related: Billeted; billeting.
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