errand是什么意思？

errand

英[ˈerənd] 美[ˈɛrənd]

• n. 差使，差事，使命；

复数：errands;

例句

• Etienne soon returned from his errand. 依脱尼不久就回来交差了.
• Unable to get about, she sent Joy on one errand after another. 她自己动不了窝,便派小福子一趟八趟的去买东西.
• He sent me on a fool's errand . 他派我去干白费力的事。
• She went off on some errand. 她办事去了。
• Michael turned to him and said gently, " I'm just the errand boy for the Bon, Freddie. 迈克尔回头面对着他,柔和他说: “ 弗烈特, 我仅仅是替老头子跑腿的差使娃.
• She had a more urgent errand. 她有一个更加紧急的差事要办。
• She went off on some errand... 她办事去了。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （短程的）差事;跑腿
  An errand is a short trip that you make in order to do a job for someone, for example when you go to a shop to buy something for them.
  例句
  She went off on some errand... 她办事去了。 She had a more urgent errand. 她有一个更加紧急的差事要办。
• PHRASE
  为…跑腿；为…办事
  If you run an errand for someone, you do or get something for them, usually by making a short trip somewhere.
  例句
  She was forever running errands for her housebound grandmother... 她总是在为她不方便外出的祖母跑前跑后。 Frank drifted into running dodgy errands for a seedy local villain. 弗兰克开始为当地一个下流的恶人跑腿做坏事。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission