Bureau

(n.) Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.

(n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.

(n.) Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.

(n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.

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• Then Adams crossed the Andes, and started a market-report bureau in Buenos Ayres. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Who has the key of this bureau? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I thought of the black-beetles, the old boxes, the worm-eaten bureau. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I therefore cabled to my friend, Wilson Hargreave, of the New York Police Bureau, who has more than once made use of my knowledge of London crime. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• This bureau consists of a double column of drawers, with a central small cupboard between them. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my treasure was safe, and locked it again. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• An effective apparatus of this kind, such as has been adopted by the United States Government for the use of the Bureau of Mines Rescue Crew, is shown in the accompanying illustration. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• No, it was for something in that wooden bureau. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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