英:['penmən]
美:[ 'pɛnmən]
英:['penmən]
美:[ 'pɛnmən]
pen·man
pen mn
penmen
noun
calligrapher
copyist, scribe
a person with a specified quality or kind of handwriting
a poor penman
author
590年代,“书写工整的人,精通书法的人”; 1610年代,“抄写员,职员,书记”(已过时),源自 pen(n.1)和 man(n.)。
The first known use of penman was in 1539
penmannoun
author sense 1
1 It is the writing; of a poor penman; it is the writing of a careless penman, who, for that time, endeavored to write a little smaller than usual, and why?
2 The split reed of the Greek penman was occasionally adopted by the late demotic scribes.
3 Mr. Cupple is not a careful penman and the cable operator had read the last word of the message as "auspicious" instead of "suspicious."
4 She even gave the penman, who set up temporary shop outside headquarters, a dime to make a card for her.
5 Who could say whether Vanity Fair would ever have been written had this mighty penman been chosen to succeed Buss?
6 Later in life he became a fairly good penman, writing a neat round hand; but he never became a good speller.
7 Penman gives relevant suggestions and measures.
笔者针对问题提出了相应的建议和措施。
8 In many instances good penmen and accountants among the soldiers gave their services gratuitously to help the newly-elected civil officers start their books and accounts.
9 "Well, Captain, I ain't much o' a penman, but I can scribble a sort o' rough hand after a fashion."
10 But it is certain that he thus converted enemies into friends, and stole the gall out of many an inkstand, and the poison from many a penman's feathered dart.
11 She knows I had at first no need of better penman than myself, and now have need of none,—for, in truth, my work was finished ere she came.
12 He must have possessed more skill as a penman than any one imagined.
13 So , it arouse reflection from penman about the relation between them.
引发了笔者对于二者关系的反思.
14 The penmen seem to have known but little Greek, and to have copied from a manuscript written continuously, for the divisions between the words are sometimes absurdly wrong.
15 Most of them did not even trouble themselves to this degree, but simply laid their tickets before the penman appointed for this special service.
16 "Let work be received in silence," says Mr. Whistler, "as it was in the days to which the penman still points as an era when art was at its apogee."
17 He was an extremely industrious man, and a splendid penman.
18 He was not a ready penman, but he got the main facts clear enough for my purpose.
19 It was also in his favor that he was a good penman, and had acquired a fair English education for the times.
20 Most of my ancestors were statesmen or penmen.
4 写作
6 笔法
7 作家
author writer PEN Roosevelt wright scribbler yarn smith man of letters bookman littérateur pen composer litterateur scribe literator ink slinger penster bookmaker
10 笔记者
11 习字