Hire

(noun.) the act of hiring something or someone; 'he signed up for a week's car hire'.

(noun.) a newly hired employee; 'the new hires need special training'.

(verb.) engage or hire for work; 'They hired two new secretaries in the department'; 'How many people has she employed?'.

校对:迈克尔

• Do you think you can hire a woman like Gudrun Brangwen with money? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• You'll hire that of me, I suppose? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Well, Chloe, who do you propose that we should hire out? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It was so that Crawley and his wife preferred to hire their house. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• We found a house to hire near the market, and took it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• You would find it difficult, I dare say, just now, in the middle of a very late hay harvest, to hire a horse and cart? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• They had the hardihood to march into the Piraeus in the early dusk and hire a carriage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I did not like to work; but I did as much of it, while young, as grown men can be hired to do in these days, and attended school at the same time. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He had hired a lodging for the present in Covent Garden, and he took the nearest way to that quarter, by Snow Hill and Holborn. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• If we add hired servants the State will be complete. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She denounced the war as wholesale murder, and Lord Wellington as a hired butcher. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It consisted simply in the hiring of quiet lodgings at Brompton, or in the neighbourhood of the barracks, for Captain and Mrs. Crawley. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term, in that Quarter, near the Banking-house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Caddy keeps her own little carriage now instead of hiring one, and lives full two miles further westward than Newman Street. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And he advocated a national army only because he saw the Italian method of carrying on war by hiring bands of foreign mercenaries was a hopeless one. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The discussions ended in our hiring for him, by the month, a neat little furnished lodging in a quiet old house near Queen Square. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She sometimes hires a servant, and sends him off the next day for the most absurd reasons: such as, 'Thomas! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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