1A person or thing that carries or holds something.

〈喻〉很抱歉，我带来了坏消息。

1. 1.1 A carrier of equipment on an expedition.
   （长途考察中装备的）搬运工，脚夫
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   • Then last year came his trip to Makalu: this time a much smaller expedition, just six Europeans and some Sherpas bearers.
   • We hired no bearers, preferring to transport our own expedition.
   • Able to operate under most weather conditions on all sorts of terrain, a human bearer can carry 60-80 pounds for fifteen miles in a day.
   • The professional ivory hunter generally carried his large medium-bore rifle while on foot and had his gun bearer carry the heavy rifle.
   • A new state law permits it, provided the bearer leaves the weapon in a locked car on the employer's property.
   • Each step of the last leg was a drudging journey, the heavy camera bearing down on the bearer's back.

   Synonyms

   carrier, porter, conveyor, transporter
2. 1.2Indian A domestic servant or other menial worker.
   〈印度〉佣人，勤杂工
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   • ‘A donation is made every year, but the items keep changing every year,’ said R. Gunaseelan, an officer bearer of the Iyakkam.
   • In an rather filmi scene, a nervous Sonali walked out looking straight ahead as people screamed ‘Sonali’ and the rose bearers tried to thrust their now-wilted flowers at her.
   • The duties of a ward boy, also called bearers, include caring of patients and shifting them for tests to different wards and clinics in the hospital.
   • ‘In earlier days, people sprayed water as the sweltering heat and the sandy path caused great inconvenience to the palanquin bearers,’ the priest says.
   • In all the yearning literature this place has spawned, the only indigenous characters are servants and bearers and extras - and that's shaming.
   • Another group of three court ladies with their lantern bearer appear further back in the garden, seated or standing in a pavilion decorated with lanterns.
   • Ahead of them in the procession, eight bearers carried a palanquin carrying only the piece of paper announcing the results.
   • No member of the Governing Council could step out without at least 20 in his train, and even at home, four silver-stick bearers heralded every move from room to room.
   • Experts estimated that only 10 per cent of Blue-Cover Hukou bearers were highly skilled workers - most were small investors.
   • The gifts carried by a group of courtiers ‘disappeared’, got deleted, leaving blanks for the bearers to carry.
   • Yashodabai says that once the grandmother was said to have kicked open and broken down the door of the palanquin that had been sent to carry her to her parents' house because the palanquin bearer did not open the door fast enough.
   • Jyotiraditya Scindia held forth expansively to Barkha Dutt over a multi-course breakfast with a bearer hovering.
   • Four corpse bearers, nasasalars, carry the body of a deceased on a bier to the Towers of Silence.
   • Regulars to these places have their pet combinations too and such is the kind of service here that often the bearer will automatically place your ‘regular’ order even as you find your seat.
   • The bearer sitting on a stool by the door could not even begin to stop him.

   Synonyms

   attendant, retainer
3. 1.3Indian A waiter.
   〈印度〉服务员，侍者
   Example sentencesExamples

   • As we sit inside one of the Japanese Tea pavilions on austerely placed wooden slats with just a wedge of cushioning, a bearer walks across the narrow ledge between the lily ponds.
   • As we left the restaurant the bearer looked at the man in pyjamas and at me and smirked.
   • The cicadas have fallen silent by the time the bearer serves you tea; because it isn't yet dawn, the birds are still nesting.
   • If you want a more relaxed approach, then the pantry provides delicious thalis at your seat via your personal bearer.
   • The guests were taken on a walk around the Court buildings, and had a good lunch, brought from home in large tiffin carriers by Mrs. CJ and served by white-uniformed bearers.
4. 1.4 A person who carries the coffin at a funeral.
   （葬礼中的）抬棺人
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   • This belief doesn't seem so surprising when you consider that coffin bearers in funeral processions carry the deceased feet first.
   • She whispered loudly, as the coffin bearers finally manhandled the casket into the right position and dropped it on the table with a clunk.
   • As we drove up to the grave of where Kevin was going to be buried I could see the paw bearers carrying the coffin to the gravesite.
   • Personnel were divided up into the tasks of ceremonial coffin bearers, street liners, ushers for the chapel, car door openers, gun carriage crew and general working hands.
   • The cairns you see along the way were once used for supporting the coffin while the bearers took a well-earned rest.
   • Jean points out quite rightly that it should be lychgate - the place where coffin bearers paused to get their breath, rather than breathe their last.
   • When Alfred died in 1997, Ray was the only white coffin bearer at his funeral, and later Ray set about updating the book, which was republished last year.
   • Both parents are serving police officers in Swindon, and Chrissy's father, 30, was among the coffin bearers.
   • The Councillor was in charge of the guard of honour and coffin bearers.
   • Mr Wright blew his chance (with a spoonerism) and the line went to the other coffin bearer.
   • Members of the club formed a guard of honour at his funeral on both days and six members acted as poll bearers carrying his coffin to the church.
   • I was in charge of the coffin bearers at Lord Mountbatten's funeral in 1979.
   • A slow drumbeat accompanied them as the groups of six coffin bearers and one escort, all from the units of the dead men, lined up to await the coffins, each draped in the Union Flag.
   • Our staff were asked to be bearers at his funeral service held at St Andrew's Church.
   • Slowly, with enthusiasm that would put coffin bearers to shame, he moved past the poster cases, making nothing of the garish imagery and loud print.
   • Coffin bearers carry the remains of an Australian soldier who died during the Battle of Lys on April 14, 1918.

2A person who presents a cheque or other order to pay money.

向持票人兑付的本票（或期票）。

1. 2.1as modifier Payable to the possessor.
   向持票人兑付的，不记名的
   bearer bonds

   无记名债券。

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   • The bearer check will remain in circulation until January 31, but it does not replace the Zimbabwean dollar.
   • Customs officers can seize cash, and cash includes cash equivalents, including bearer bonds, gemstones, money orders, postal notes, precious metals, and travellers cheques.
   • The bank introduced what it calls ‘the bearer cheque’ during the week.
   • If you can PROVE any homeopathic remedy has a measurable effect then you can claim US $1,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds from the JREF.
   • This is because English law treats both share certificates to bearer and bearer debt securities as negotiable instruments.
   • You can create these wonderful things called bearer shares, which can be essentially two pieces of paper, two shares in a company, and whoever holds those two shares owns the company.
   • Government has recently extended the expiry date of the bearer's cheque to December 2004 as it battles to ease cash crisis.
   • The issued share capital of Latreefers was 100 bearer shares of no par value.
   • The owner is said to have put unreported income in bank deposits or used it to buy bearer bonds.
   • It turned out that a lot of assets had been liquidated and turned into bearer bonds, but these have never been located, and his joint account was cleaned out just after he disappeared.
   • The resource underlying the UF is a bearer security of the Bank of Chile.
   • In the past, investors received physical certificates (referred to as in bearer form) when they bought stock.
   • However, pledges of documents of title and of bearer bonds are excluded from most of the statutory requirements.
   • Two bearer shares were allocated to Hemery and then transferred to trusts of which the two appellants and Baber were settlors.
   • Such schemes include tax amnesties, voluntary disclosures and special bearer bonds.
   • Regardless of the evidence, the lottery ticket is a bearer note, which means whoever turns in a valid ticket is legally entitled to the winnings, end of story.
   • In fact, no such bearer certificate of deposit was ever obtained, but the moneys were released in circumstances in which it was held that both the Perpetual companies and Minters were acting in breach of trust.
   • If you lose a security in bearer form, there is no way to retrieve it - the person who finds it is the proud new owner of your stock.
   • There is also a move afoot to abolish bearer share regimes that do not facilitate a record of the owner, as ownership is passed by delivery of the shares.
   • Brennan held $4m of non-traceable bearer bonds, which Banks invested in the stock market via Bank of Scotland accounts and shell companies.