yeoman
yeoman 英 ['jəʊmən] 美 ['jomən]
n. 自耕农；自由民；仆人
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- n. 自耕农；自由民；仆人
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1. There’s no doubt that, in dealing with the crisis, Paulson has done a yeoman’s job. But in some respects he’s just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
毫无疑问，在处理危机问题上，保尔森做了忠实的工作，但是在某些方面，他只不过是在错误的时间出现在错误的地点。
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2. But the illicit relationship was discovered when suspicious colleagues found incriminating text messages on yeoman's mobile phone during a school trip, and she was jailed yesterday for 20 months.
但是非法关系被她的同事发现，在一次学校出游中他们从约曼的手机里发现了犯法的短信。她昨天被判入狱20个月。
- yeoman (n.) c. 1300, "attendant in a noble household," of unknown origin, perhaps a contraction of Old English iunge man "young man," or from an unrecorded Old English *geaman, equivalent of Old Frisian gaman "villager," from Old English -gea "district, region, village," cognate with Old Frisian ga, ge, German Gau, Gothic gawi, from Proto-Germanic *gaujan.
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