英语词汇“post-office counter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. General attributive, as post-office clerk, post-office counter, post-office window, etc.

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1708 Boston News-let. 15 Mar. 2/2 A little Board hanging out at the Post-Office Window.

1778 F. Burney Evelina III. v. 59 The post-office people will let us know if they hear of him.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 16 Mrs. Tomlinson, the post-office keeper, seemed..to have been chosen the leader of the trade party.

1866 J. Rees Foot-prints 326 Reed was an old post-office clerk, who..had been in the office for twenty odd years.

1891 ‘Phil’ Penny Postage Jubilee ix. 156 It was not an uncommon practice of the post-office servants to mark the postage on the envelope with pen and red ink.

1893 H. Joyce Hist. Post Office vi. 44 Out of London, the Post Office servants remained [in 1690] much as they had been ten years before, at about 239 in number, of whom all but twelve were postmasters.

1923 Glasgow Herald 10 Oct. 7/1 Licenceless owners will make themselves liable to prosecution if discovered by the Post Office inspectors.

1976 Computing Europe 2 Sept. 5/2 There are a lot of Post Office employees and..at least some of them can have criminal inclinations.

1989 V. Singh Jaya Ganga 58 ‘Oh! Oh! Impossible! Incorrigible,’ the man screamed in anger, ‘you mean that bloody postoffice clerk has still not found his ten gram weight!’

1993 Guardian 18 Sept. 33/3 A large proportion of the ‘unbanked’ rely on state benefits, cashing their giros at post office counters.

单词	post-office counter
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