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Перевод: errand
[существительное] поручение; командировка
Тезаурус:
- "Dear lady, I am but an errand boy in the Foreign Service"
- The weaver shook his head but the messenger dared not leave his door till his master's errand had been fulfilled.
- As he pedalled slowly towards the farmhouse, logic told the village constable he was on a fool's errand.
- "But I see you're on the same errand as myself."
- To "mind the baby" for a neighbour when the mother is out, or to wheel one in a pram on washing-day and do any necessary errand, will probably mean a square meal or "a mash of tea" and some coppers, as well as discarded garments, if the neighbour's husband is in good work."
- He was pretending that the errand was a nuisance, though at the same time he was grinning with pleasure at the thought of taking McIllvanney's brand new sportsboat to sea.
- Annie uttered a silent but fervent prayer of gratitude and Len Brayton, his errand accomplished, took his leave.
- He ate his ice-cream and made off, on some errand or other.
- He often got me out of bed, late on an evening, to run an errand.
- Jenkins did quite a delivery trade, the goods being taken out by Mr. Bevis on a very old "errand boy's" bike with a wicker basket at the front.
- Not all the content is quite so melodramatic, and the same filmmaker's Our Little Errand Boy (1905) is a fabulous slapstick comedy about a plucky prankster who terrorizes his neighbourhood and, when pursued by the vicar, the shopkeeper, the matron and various others, locks them all behind the wire mesh of a chicken run.
- "It's been lovely to see you all, even though it's a sad errand that's brought me!"
- With sinking heart, the errand boy replied,
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