suitor
suitor 英 [ˈsu:tə(r)] 美 [ˈsutɚ]
n. 求婚者；请愿者；[法] 起诉人
名词复数:suitors
- A suitor is a guy who asks you out on a date. You can describe your sister's prom escort as her suitor.
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- n. 求婚者；请愿者；[法] 起诉人
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1. But the suitor must also measure up in character and honor and local reputation.
但求婚者还必须在品格、信用以及在当地的声誉上符合要求。
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2. Afterwards it strikes me what that movie is, and I reel out of the cinema like a suitor at the end of a misbegotten date.
之后，一个念头突然闪在我的脑中：这究竟是哪部电影。 我蹒跚着走出影院，如同经历蹩脚的约会后的求婚者一般。
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3. Not long afterward a suitor came who appeared to be very rich, and because the miller could find no fault with him, he promised his daughter to him.
不久，来了一个求婚者，看起来很富有，举止也非常得体，磨坊老闆从他身上找不到自己不满意的地方，就答应把女儿嫁给他。
- suitor (n.) c. 1300, "a frequenter;" late 14c., "follower, disciple," from Anglo-French seutor, suitor or directly from Late Latin secutor "follower, pursuer," from sect- past participle stem of sequi "to follow" (from PIE root *sekw- (1) "to follow"). Meaning "plaintiff in a lawsuit" is from mid-15c. Meaning "one who seeks (a woman) in marriage" is from 1580s.
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