errand
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源自中古英語 erande、erende，源自古英語 ǣrende，源自原始西日耳曼語 *ārundī (“消息，口信”)。
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errand（複數 errands）
- 完成一项任务需要的路途。
- (書面或古舊) 任务，探求
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
- What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
- 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent.
- In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed all alone.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
- 差事，跑腿活
- The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.
- 他开始项目前需要做的事包括从商店买到材料，拿到他借给邻居的工具。
- I'm going to town on some errands.
- 我要去城里办点事。
- (書面或古舊) 任务，探求
- 办事的目的
- 口信
- 1633, John Donne, Elegy VII
- I had not taught thee then the alphabet
Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set
And bound up, might with speechless secrecy
Deliver errands mutely and mutually.
- I had not taught thee then the alphabet
- 1633, John Donne, Elegy VII
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errand（第三人稱單數簡單現在時 errands，現在分詞 erranding，一般過去時及過去分詞 erranded）
- (及物) 让...去办事
- All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
- 所有佣人要不是在休假，要不是被派去办事情不在家里。
- (不及物) 去办事
- She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.
- 她下午在城市里办事时过得很愉快。