| 单词 | shop-walking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshop-walking shop-walking n. now historical and rare the action of working as a shop-walker; the occupation of shop-walker. ΚΠ 1863 ‘N. Brook’ Gertrude Winn iv. 59 I shall be rather glad of the change in occupation. To me shop-walking is a miserable business. 1896 T. B. Russell Yellow Bk. Apr. 207 This duty of shop-walking Mr. Borlase divided at busy times with a lean man, grey-headed and stooping at the shoulders, who rubbed lank hands together when addressed by a customer. 1903 A. Bennett How to become Author vi. 133 There are movements in the working day of every novelist when he feels deeply that anything—road-mending, shopwalking, housebreaking—would be better than this eternal torture of the brain; but such moments pass. 1933 Times of India 14 Oct. 9/1 After having tried window-cleaning, shop-walking, band-conducting, and the Police Force, Jack now..becomes a journalist. 1953 Financial Times 12 Jan. 4/5 Seldom has such a smooth piece of shop-walking been done than by Sir Bernard Gilbert..and Mr. Norman Young..in the answers they gave to the Public Accounts Committee's questions. < as lemmas |
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