英语释义

• the keeper of a public house

片语

tax collector[税收] 收税员

taxman税收检查员；收税员

英汉例句

• chilled to the very marrow, he laid a crumpled pound note on the counter, waiting with anticipation for the publican to draw him a pint of thick, black stout.

  他朝柜台上放了一张皱巴巴的一英镑纸币，满怀期待地等着酒馆老板给他打来一品脱醇厚的烈性黑啤。

• i hope not:i hope by this time we are all convinced that are publican government, like that of america, may exist without danger or injury to social order, or to established monarchies.

  但愿没有：我希望如今我们都相信像美国这样的共和制政府不会危及或损害社会秩序和已建立的君主政体。

• quayle has been the object of jokes and criticism ever since bush chose him, seemingly from out of nowhere, as his running mate at the 1988 publican convention.

  一九八八年，在共和党全国代表大会上，似乎名不见经传的奎尔被布什挑中，成了其竞选伙伴。从那以后，奎尔便一直是被人们取笑和批评的对象。

• some people deny themselves the necessaries or comforts of life in order that they may be able to help to fatten a publican .

  有些人不要生活必需品和较好的享受，目的是为了可以帮助养肥酒店老板。

• but the scribes and pharisees murmured in discontent against jesus for joining with such as levi, who had been a publican or hated tax-gatherer on behalf of the roman government .

  但是文士和法利赛人为耶稣召唤象利未这样，一个曾经是为罗马政府收税的被憎恨的税吏的人而感到不满，发怨言。

• sitting at his toll booth one day, the publican saw jesus approaching.

  有一天，马太坐在税关上，看见耶稣向他走来。

• that publican of the bar is a woman.

  那家酒馆的老板是个女的。

• the chief publican longed to look upon the face of him whose words had brought hope to his heart.

  这税吏长渴望见耶稣一面，因他的话已使他心中生出希望。

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