livery
livery 英 [ˈlɪvəri] 美 [ˈlɪvəri, ˈlɪvri]
n. 制服；侍从 adj. 有肝病症状的
名词复数:liveries
- A livery is a place that will take care of your horse, for a fee. You will mostly see this use now in historic novels — especially the kind where a cowboy rides into town and stables his horse at the livery.
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- n. 制服；侍从
- adj. 有肝病症状的
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1. Every once in a while an airline will slather a plane or two (and sometimes more) in a custom livery that tells a story.
每过一段时间，航空公司就会为一架或两架（或者更多）飞机穿上新制服，每件彩绘都有一个故事。
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2. The old mace-bearer, Kinu, with his white livery and crested turban, on guard at my father's door, would warn us not to be boisterous in the verandah in front of his rooms during his midday siesta.
那个执职杖的老克努，穿着白色制服，头裹饰巾，守在我父亲的门口，警告我们不要在父亲午睡时，在他的房前的凉台上大吵大嚷。
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3. Staff in green and cream uniforms that matched the train's livery guided us to our cabins, in which armchairs and sofas by day convert to single beds at night.
车站职员的绿色和米色相间的制服和车上侍者的制服很匹配，他引领我们来到自己的车厢。 车厢里的扶手椅和沙发到晚上可以放下成为单人铺位。
- livery (n.) c. 1300, "household allowance of any kind (food, provisions, clothing) to retainers or servants," from Anglo-French livere (late 13c.; Old French liveree, Modern French livrée), "allowance, ration, pay," originally "(clothes) delivered by a master to his retinue," from fem. past participle of livrer "to dispense, deliver, hand over," from Latin liberare "to set free" (see liberate).
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