| 释义 |
scribe/skraib/ n. & v.●n. 1 a person who writes out documents, esp. hist. an ancient or medieval copyist of manuscripts 文书；书记；[尤史义] (古代或中世纪的)抄写员 2 Jewish Hist. an ancient Jewish record-keeper or, later, a professional theologian and jurist [犹太]【史】(古代的)档案保管员；(近代的)神学家，法学家 3 (in full 全称 scribe-awl) a pointed instrument for making marks on wood, bricks, etc., to guide a saw, or in signwriting 划线器(在木材、砖上划线以便锯开) 4 N. Amer. colloq. a writer, esp. a journalist [北美口]作家；(尤指)记者 ●v. tr. mark (wood etc.) with a scribe (see sense 3 of n. 见名词释义 3) 用划线器(在木头等上)划线 □ scribal adj.[the noun Middle English from Latin scriba, from scribere ‘write’: the verb perhaps from DESCRIBE] |