| 单词 | travelling salesman |
| 例句 | At this point the priest left and I told the story about the travelling salesman who arrived at five o’clock in the morning at Marseilles when the mistral was blowing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Hands off my wife, you seedy art-dealing historian travelling salesman character! Downton Abbey recap: series five, episode four – dangerously close to an actual plot 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Brent will be portrayed as a travelling salesman financing a UK concert tour in the hopes of fulfilling his dreams of becoming a rock star. Gervais to make David Brent movie 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z I've always seen myself as a travelling salesman and when I started recognising the petrol stations' employees I realised they probably thought the same. Service stations: my secret love affair 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z Her father was an alcoholic travelling salesman, who died when she was young. Betty Garrett obituary 2011-02-13T18:19:53Z Lonely and depressed, he takes a job as a travelling salesman selling toothbrushes, and sets out on an ill-fated journey to the Shetlands. A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Hancock displays the hardscrabble lot of the travelling salesman, with phone calls to the home office made at parking-lot pay phones and lonely nights in shabby hotels. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Paulson says she sometimes feels like “a travelling salesman”, which suits her line of work. Sarah Paulson: ‘If I’m terrified, I feel compelled to do it’ 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Helen was 17 when she met Maurice, a travelling salesman for his father’s women’s wear firm. Maurice and Helen Kaye: happily married for 80 years 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z In a hilarious sequence Randall attends Pfizer's boot camp, where slick travelling salesmen are indoctrinated in the justification of their profession. Love & Other Drugs ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z One-time seminarist, navy man, stockbroker, art collector and Sunday painter, travelling salesman, bill-poster, ceramicist, labourer, journalist and editor, Gauguin also had an eye for posterity. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z My dad was a travelling salesman and told a good joke. Dick Van Dyke: 'Someone should have told me to work on my Cockney accent' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Salim is a travelling salesman, an emigre from Oman stranded in the snow of New York. The best TV episodes of 2017, from The Deuce to Line of Duty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The prime minister has become something of a travelling salesman for his deal: taking in Windsor, parliament, Northern Ireland and parliament again in just over 24 hours. How is the government's Brexit deal with the European Union going down? 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z He was a travelling salesman in the 1960's - making business calls from a phone box after losing his company's premises. Frank Williams: 'He will forever be a Formula 1 legend' 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z A travelling salesman by day, Williams fulfilled his racing ambitions at the weekend and, aged just 24, he launched his own team, Frank Williams Racing Cars. Frank Williams, founder of Formula One team, dies at 79 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z My dad was a travelling salesman for James Stewart and Co in Ardwick, opposite Manchester Apollo. Loved and Lost: grief in the time of coronavirus – a photo essay 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Hearn refers to himself as “a travelling salesman” – his schedule, these days, is not carbon efficient – though really he’d like to be remembered for being an outstanding man of business. Eddie Hearn: 'I can't say I don't enjoy the limelight' 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Mr Magar was first spotted by a travelling salesman when he was 14 and taken to local fairs, where children paid to be photographed next to him. World’s shortest mobile man dies aged 27 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z However, he felt obliged to follow a more responsible path after the death of his father, a travelling salesman. Why Hideo Kojima is gaming's most divisive figure 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, Quichotte tells of an ageing travelling salesman who drives across America to prove himself worthy of a TV star's hand. Six authors await Booker Prize 2019 announcement 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z A. P. Carter, the band’s patriarch, had worked as a travelling salesman, during which time he roamed central Appalachia, knocking on doors and “collecting” old folk songs. Bill Callahan Makes Good Use of Quiet 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Once low-key, homely affairs catering to travelling salesmen and lonely truckers, Hof has brought the industry into the 21st Century with a touch of Hollywood glamour and shrewd marketing. Last call for Nevada’s brothels? 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Early medieval merchants were little more than travelling salesmen. Is this the most influential work in the history of capitalism? 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z A travelling salesman awakens one morning, transformed into an insect. Washington Post bestsellers: June 4, 2017 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Ray Kroc was a 50-something travelling salesman when he met the McDonald brothers, two businessmen who lost their money in the Depression of the 1930s, but who had built up their own California roadside restaurant. Michael Keaton tackles 'Trumpian' character in The Founder - BBC News 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z His weeks are spent like David Brent, as a travelling salesman, driving around meeting his solar energy clients. ‘Call me a racist, but don’t say I’m a Buddhist’: America's alt right 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z As a lowly and not terribly efficient travelling salesman, this is no minor dereliction. A Point of View: Why it's getting harder to lose track of time - BBC News 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z It’s about not spending all the rest of his time being a travelling salesman of Republican influence. Paul Ryan and the Fund-Raising–Life Balance 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z In the motor industry’s early days, a century ago, manufacturers tried selling their vehicles at the factory gate, in shops they owned themselves, by mail order and through travelling salesmen. Death of a car salesman 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Even vegetables can no longer be grown locally but must be purchased from travelling salesmen. ‘It’s not like Argo’: the trials of a tour guide in Iran 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z He worked his way up to become a travelling salesman, peddling his wares across Europe and helping promote the canine section of the Paris Exhibition. Dogs on the catwalk: Crufts 2015 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Years later, I learned that “drummer” also meant “travelling salesman.” The Cabaret Beat 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Mr Cross said the foreigners' occupations included travelling salesmen, hairdressers, music hall artists, and two men believed to be former police officers, although their record entry shows them as "retired". World War One 'aliens' sent to camps 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The classic example is that of the travelling salesman who needs to find the shortest route for visiting a series of cities connected by road, and then return to the starting point. Is $15m machine a glimpse of future computing? 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Born to a homemaker and a travelling salesman, Masipa was brought up in some of the poorest places in South Africa, one of the most unequal countries in the world. The Trailblazing Judge Who Will Decide Oscar Pistorius’ Fate 2014-05-07T04:01:59Z So, for example, think of the classic travelling salesman problem where one tries to find the shortest path when travelling between a number of cities. Is It Quantum Computing Or Not? 2013-05-17T14:45:00.213Z My father was a travelling salesman and as soon as I was two years old, he took my mother and me on the road with him. From Los Alamos to Stockholm 2012-10-10T21:51:30.947Z An example is a computer trying to work out the shortest route around town for a travelling salesman. Nobel for quantum "parlor trick" that could make super computers 2012-10-10T00:44:07Z Imagine a travelling salesman working out the shortest route around town. A Nobel prize for being in two places at once 2012-10-09T14:40:10Z In the 1970s, my dad had a rival: a travelling salesman who lived at the end of our road. Trouble on the line: what caused the train franchise fiasco? 2012-10-05T23:05:31Z There was then no selling goods through travelling salesmen by samples, but the purchasers came in person direct to headquarters and laid in their supplies. Life Gleanings 2011-12-01T03:00:23.890Z Many “field” or travelling salesmen have been replaced by cheaper telephone salespeople. Schumpeter: The art of selling 2011-10-19T20:18:14Z DNA computing was , to solve what is known as the "travelling salesman problem" - determining the shortest path that joins a number of geographically separated locations. DNA computing takes logical leap 2011-06-02T18:11:58Z Still attending to business as a travelling salesman, for six years he swept and made ready his Sunday-school room. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z Then, to enter a dining-room unattended, either to be corralled at a table with the other members of the company, or, if seated elsewhere, to be further subjected to the advances of a "travelling salesman." My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Outside he watched a travelling salesman who, with a chewed cigar between stout fingers, bent over the switchboard and chatted with the blonde operator. The Tempering Kathryn had never had any experience with travelling salesmen––she wasn’t clear as to their mission in life. At the Crossroads A travelling salesman was hunched over a week-old Times as if he would awake in a few minutes, glance about guiltily and resume his reading. The End of Time After the loss of about thirty-five sections the Code resumes: Responsibility of a travelling salesman § 100. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters But perhaps he might be a travelling salesman. What's-His-Name Palmer, travelling salesman for a Pittsburgh meat house, was on the ill-fated day express, one car of which was washed away. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin You wouldn’t expect a travelling salesman to hang around his shop all the time, would you?” At the Crossroads That had proved his undoing, for even the fifth-rate French travelling salesmen and sharpers and adventurers who patronized the hotel had money enough for him to steal. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse A travelling salesman who became addicted to drink lost a good situation through this habit. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers I asked Chief Justice Ide, his daughter, and a travelling salesman named Campbell to see the dancing. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson The patron in the chair, a travelling salesman, watched the pantomime with interest. The Dude Wrangler Captain Pharo waited, visibly holding the leash on his impatience, for a "runner"—or travelling salesman—to complete his bath, when he plunged in gleefully, face and hands. Vesty of the Basins Andrew Pill had been a variety of things, a farmer, a dry-goods merchant, and a travelling salesman, but in a revival quite like this of his own, he had been converted and his life changed. Other Main-Travelled Roads So then here it was 2.07, and Hannah Winter, rather panicky, was rushing along Peacock Alley, dodging loungers, and bell-boys, and travelling salesmen and visiting provincials and the inevitable red-faced delegates with satin badges. Gigolo The travelling salesman who was cross and weary finally left his seat, grumbling audibly. With Those Who Wait He sank to the level of the irresistible travelling salesman who tells the tale of his successes in foreign taverns. How Women Love (Soul Analysis) "In other words, Green," Max concluded, "I have just been fired out of a job as travelling salesman, which I held for twenty years, and I don't see a chance of getting another one." Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter H.B., travelling salesman, from New York, æt. forty, single, a large, strongly-made man, a hard worker, given to excesses in sexual indulgence and alcohol for years. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria "Yes, several," answered Richard, who was always as eager as a travelling salesman to recommend his wares. Living Alone In the meantime the travelling salesman taking advantage of his silence, continued: "Yes, it was you and the financiers, and it's nothing to brag about either!" With Those Who Wait One day the travelling salesman of fruit trees came again. Bylow Hill That night H. had to occupy a room with a stranger, named E., a travelling salesman. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion He was a large, florid man, wore a conspicuous diamond solitaire upon his third finger, and Everett judged him to be a travelling salesman of some sort. Youth and the Bright Medusa "Wanted, a young man of dashing appearance, with a good vocabulary to act as travelling salesman, must be well recommended, and have a thorough knowledge of the dry goods business." Duty, and other Irish Comedies The wholesale grocery trade liked Platt, and he had for his customers the fondness that a travelling salesman has who is successful in his territory. Cheerful—By Request He knew that Drouet was only a travelling salesman—and not one of many years at that—but the firm of Bartlett, Caryoe & Company was a large and prosperous house, and Drouet stood well. Sister Carrie: a Novel And later, when I was bigger, it was a young German travelling salesman who taught me college songs and impressed me with his show of greater worldly wisdom, that won my heart. The Bride of Dreams Strange that people whose business is hospitality should be so inhospitable, and strange that the American travelling salesman, a companionable creature, not averse from comfort, should not have created a better condition of things. October Vagabonds It is too common and low and vulgar for words: like a travelling salesman. Cytherea He was a travelling salesman of the Hancock Uniform Company, and was visiting Fort Crockett to measure the officers for their summer tunics. Ranson's Folly Theatrical companies and travelling salesmen carried them; visiting merchants and sightseers acquired them. The Metropolis At the table was a drummer who sold lightning rods, and several other travelling salesmen. Parnassus on Wheels Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. Metamorphosis Before Craig had a chance to put another question, the buzzer on our door sounded, and I admitted a dapper, soft-spoken man of middle size, who might have been a travelling salesman or a bookkeeper. The Dream Doctor It's a bit of a travelling salesman and a commission broker by me. Yama: the pit I was a travelling salesman, and it was a common occurrence for me to have to call a physician to my hotel to administer morphine for an acute form of this disease. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures We have branch houses in Paris, London, and New York, but we employ no travelling salesmen. That Mainwaring Affair The house in which Siders lodged belonged to a travelling salesman by the name of Winter. The Case of the Registered Letter There happen great unpleasantnesses, when the place has been worked out, when a lot of travelling salesmen have appeared before you. Yama: the pit |
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