er·rand
noun/ˈerənd/
/ˈerənd/
- a job that you do for somebody that involves going somewhere to take a message, to buy something, deliver goods, etc.
差使；差事 - He often runs errands for his grandmother.
他经常给他的祖母跑腿儿。 - Her boss sent her on an errand into town.
老板派她进城办事去了。
Extra Examples- She made her brother run some little errands for her.
他让弟弟帮他跑腿办些小事。 - She's gone on an errand for her mother.
她替母亲办点儿事去了。 - He always seemed to have a lot of errands to do.
他似乎总是有很多事情要做。 - It was a perfectly simple errand—what went wrong?
这是一件非常简单的差事——出了什么问题？
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- small
- simple
- …
- do
- go on
- run
- …
- on an errand
Word OriginOld English ǣrende ‘message, mission’, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German ārunti, and obscurely to Swedish ärende and Danish ærinde. - He often runs errands for his grandmother.