| 单词 | state lottery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstate lottery (ii) With the sense ‘officially provided, established, supported, or managed by, or under the control of, the State or national government; (also) employed by or in the service of the State’; as state agent, state benefit, state employee, state lottery, state religion, state television, etc. ΚΠ 1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence ii. 282 State-agents cannot easily change their manner, whereto they have beene most accustomed. 1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck ii. sig. D3 A State-Informers Character. 1695 J. Evelyn Diary (1952) 334 The State Lottery drawing, Mr Cock..drew a lot of £1,000 per annum. 1700 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 406 There was this Weeke greate changes of State Officers. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Pension In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. 1775 London Chron. 23–25 May 495/1 In the last State Lottery there were only 81 prizes above 100 l. 1828 H. D. Best Italy 427 The supporters of state religions are shrewdly suspected, too, of holding that one religion is as good as another. 1852 Boston Atlas 13 Feb. 2/4 Turkey... A reduction of 20 per cent is to be made on the salary of the State employees. 1869 Economist 6 Feb. 146/2 The ideal reform, that of compelling all persons in work to subscribe to a State Benefit Fund for sickness, old age, or loss of work. 1881 E. W. Hamilton Diary 5 June (1972) I. 144 It is certainly a great misfortune that the three foremost men on the front Opposition bench should be dependent on State aid. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 241/1 The State Railways of India. 1892 Bk. Common Prayer 1662, Publ. Pref. 8 The titles of..the three State Services [sc. those for 5 Nov., 30 Jan., 29 May]. 1905 Act 5 Edward VII c. 19 (title) The construction..of railways in India, by state agency, or through the agency of companies. 1927 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Univ. Professors Feb. 125 Full professors are considered state employees and receive their salary directly from the government. 1948 J. Towster Polit. Power in U.S.S.R. iii. 42 The Party..was not yet equipped to substitute collective-farm and state-farm production for kulak production. 1971 Daily Tel. 16 June 3/3 Men are prevented from drawing more in State benefits than they had earned while in work. 1994 Daily Tel. 27 July 11/2 His recent restructuring of state television is now seen as an attack on press freedom. 2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Dec. 48/2 The official ideology was not Islam but Pancasila, devised..as a kind of state religion. < as lemmas |
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