| 单词 | messenger |
| 释义 | messenger (once / 199 pages) n Use the noun messenger to refer to someone who brings you a message. Your mail carrier delivering a postcard and your gossipy friend calling to give you the latest news can each be described as a messenger. Delivering messages for others is certainly a time-honored profession, since even the gods of Antiquity needed someone to do it — the Greeks had Hermes and the Romans had Mercury as their messenger gods. A messenger carries a message, and that's where the word itself comes from: the Latin root of message is missus, which means "a sending away, sending, dispatching" and is the past participle of mittere, "send." WORD FAMILYmessenger: messengers USAGE EXAMPLESAsked about the role cybersecurity policy will play in his administration, he steered Americans toward bike messengers. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) You may find these are not happy prophecies, but please don’t disparage the messenger. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “Silence” argues against orthodoxy, but its messenger is too pallid. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) n a person who carries a message Syn|Hypo|Hyper courier conveyer, conveyor a person who conveys (carries or transmits) dispatch ridera messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle) herald, trumpeter(formal) a person who announces important news bearera messenger who bears or presents errand boy, messenger boya boy who earns money by running errands process-serversomeone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant runnera person who is employed to deliver messages or documents page, pageboya boy who is employed to run errands traveler, traveller a person who changes location |
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