单词 ERRAND的词源
Old English ǣrende; related to ār messenger, Old Norse erendi message, Old High German ārunti, Swedish ärende.
«ERRAND»的英语 引用
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errand的知名引用和例句
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Fool's
Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy
. . Despite some truly wrenching twists, there is a welcome sense of new beginnings.”—Locus From the Paperback edition.
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Errand Into the Wilderness
The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists ...
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Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign ...
Provides a history of American foreign-mission thought from the colonial period to the present day, exploring the ramifications of a culture's attempts to extend its ideals and technology to another people.
William R. Hutchison,
1993
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Fool’s Errand (The Tawny Man Trilogy, Book 1)
DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW WITH THIS LIMITED-TIME DISCOUNT ON BOOK ONE OF THE SERIES.
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A Fool's
Errand: A Novel of the South During Reconstruction
Subtitled "A Novel of the South During Reconstruction," this 1879 bestseller, by a participant in that great social experiment, is the barely fictionalized account of the career of a Northern lawyer in North Carolina after the Civil War.
Albion Winegar Tourgee,
2010
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An Absorbing
Errand: How Artists and Craftsmen Make Their ...
Explores the psychological obstacles to art-making, using the examples of such artists as Lady Gaga, Charlie Chaplin, and Julia Child to illustrate how different challenges have been overcome in the pursuit of creative visions.
Janna Malamud Smith,
2012
Phil Brent was plodding through the snow in the direction of the house where he lived with his step-mother and her son, when a snow-ball, moist and hard, struck him just below his ear with stinging emphasis.
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A Fool's
Errand By One Of The Fools: The Famous Romance Of ...
1880. To which is added, by the same author, Part II. The Invisible Empire [Ku Klux Klan]: a concise review of the epoch on which the tale is based.
When his loyal butler runs off with the Omega Company's gorgeous new medic--or so it seems--Phule sets off after him, while General Blitzkrieg decides to make a surprise visit to Zenobia. Original.
Robert Asprin, Peter J. Heck,
2006
As the Emma Trilogy begins, Emma Dalton is eager to have a memorable summer before starting collage at BYU, and she gets her wish.Emma's desire to uncover the truth about a mysterious ancestor sends her on an errand for the Lord in a place ...
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It's a hoax: Jay-Z and Beyonce aren't trying to buy rights to the …
Even if the quote were accurate -- which it's not -- getting the rights to the Confederate flag would be a fool's errand. Not even for $280 million? «PolitiFact, 七月 15»
Did the GOP Just Find a Way to Keep Donald Trump Off the Debate …
Of course, predicting what The Donald will do and what he won't is a bit of a fool's errand at this point—and backing him into a corner may only ... «Slate Magazine, 七月 15»
Dispatches's secret footage inside Isis is ghastly but unmissable …
So you've just popped out of town for the day on an errand. And when you get back, everyone has gone. Your wife, your kids, your nephews ... «Spectator.co.uk, 七月 15»
Brooklyn Vinyl Works Has New Customer Demand — and Very Old …
... thanks to online streaming services, pressing vinyl sounds like a fool's errand — until you look at the statistics. Vinyl sales in the United States ... «Village Voice, 七月 15»
Summer pet care reminders during hot summer months
When a pet comes along for a quick errand, never leave them behind. "It is deadly to leave your pet in the car during the summertime," said ... «KLEW, 七月 15»
NYPD Arrests Man for Reporting Car Stolen Before Finding It Was …
Later in the morning, he left his store to run an errand but his car had disappeared. Kleyner had no idea what had happened to the Passat and ... «DNAinfo, 七月 15»
An America Absent Religious Freedom Is Hard to Imagine
It was not easy undertaking this "errand into the wilderness," to use a phrase from the Puritan Cotton Mather, who wrote The Great Works of ... «Christian Post, 七月 15»
137 Minutes With Hannibal Buress
he asks, springing the new multitasking, errand-running plan on me only when I arrive at the swank West Hollywood hotel where he's been ... «Vulture, 七月 15»
Driving with only one shoe on…
Resist the temptation to run a “quick” errand while your little one stays in the car. Locking your car when you're not driving and installing escape ... «KSL.com, 七月 15»
Thefts drop, but complacency is on the rise
“People leave the keys in when they're running into a store for an errand, or to start the air-conditioning or heat before getting into the car,” ... «Traverse City Record Eagle, 七月 15»