janitor
janitor 英 [ˈdʒænɪtə(r)] 美 [ˈdʒænɪtɚ]
n. 看门人；守卫；门警 n. 清洁工
名词复数:janitors
- A janitor is someone whose job is cleaning and maintaining a building. If your school always looks clean and orderly, be sure to thank the janitor.
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- n. 看门人；守卫；门警
- n. 清洁工
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1. "What is this?" he asked the janitor.
“这是什么东西？” 他向看门人问道。
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2. It was a janitor’s closet. There were brooms and mops all over.
这是一个看门人的房间，房中到处都是扫帚和拖把。
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3. Today, I stopped to chat with the office janitor like I do every Monday morning on my way into work.
今天，我又像往常每一个周一早晨一样，在我上班的地方和我办公楼的看门人交谈。
- janitor (n.) 1580s, "an usher in a school," later "doorkeeper" (1620s), from Latin ianitor "doorkeeper, porter," from ianua "door, entrance, gate," from ianus "arched passageway, arcade" (see Janus) + agent suffix -tor. Meaning "caretaker of a building, man employed to see that rooms are kept clean and in order" first recorded 1708. Fem. forms were janitress (1806), janitrix (1818).
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