(noun.) an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts).
(verb.) work as a clerk, as in the legal business.
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双语例句
The porter lit it again, and I asked if that was all the light the clerk sent. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
You appear to feel it so,' rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
My impatience to reach the church was so great that I could not remain inactive in the cottage while the clerk lit the lantern again. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
He's vestry-clerk here now as his father was before him. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a-- I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, A clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Before the Sergeant could put his next question, another visitor was announced--the head clerk from Mr. Bruff's office. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Sir Sluggish Knight, replied the Clerk, these are dangerous words, and I pray you to forbear them. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
To the astonishment of my clerk, I at once decided on granting an interview to the gentleman below. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
To these communications Peggotty replied as promptly, if not as concisely, as a merchant's clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
You astonish me, Sir; he wos a clerk in a gov'ment office, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
If you just go to the Magpie and Stump, and ask at the bar for Mr. Lowten, they'll show you in to him, and he's Mr. Perker's clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
The Stryver clerk, who never assisted at these conferences, had gone home, and the Stryver principal opened the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
But personal service, by clerk or agent, in these cases, you know, Mr. Pickwick--nothing like caution, sir, in all legal forms--eh? 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
She remembered the old pew-woman and clerk. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
He wants no clerks. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Is it any wonder that its captains and commanders and officials, nay, even its clerks and common soldiers, came back to England loaded with spoils? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
One of his clerks noticing his interest asked what he would give for the bees. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Then I asked if there were many clerks? 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
The clerks had not arrived yet, and he beguiled the time by looking out of the staircase window. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
At this humorous notion, all the clerks laughed in concert. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
All the middle-aged clerks think their families too large. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
There are several grades of lawyers' clerks. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
I did exactly what he indicated, and waited until the other clerks had departed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
I gave him a nickel, and he elbowed his way in; and throwing the money on the counter, the store being filled with women clerks, he said: 'Give me three pairs. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
The rectors passed to the full front; the parish clerks fell to the extreme rear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
She is considered so (I have heard) among the clerks in the Inn, and it is a point more in their way than in mine. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
The clerks were there, but nobody was doing anything. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.