| 释义 |
ˈnews-boy
A boy who sells newspapers in the streets, or delivers them at houses.
1764in O. E. Winslow Amer. Broadside Verse (1930) 205 The news-boy's christmas and new-year's verses. 1812Combe Picturesque xxiii, Deafen'd by a news-boy's din. 1860Thackeray Round. Papers, Late Gt. Vict. (1876) 34 A news-boy had stopped in his walk, and was reading aloud the journal which it was his duty to deliver. 1879E. K. Bates Egypt. Bonds II. viii. 188 The news-boys are plying their morning trade with harsh, piercing shrieks. 1939T. S. Eliot Family Reunion i. i. 43 The hidden shall be exposed and the newsboy shall shout in the street. |