Hiring

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hire

伊莉斯校对

• It consisted simply in the hiring of quiet lodgings at Brompton, or in the neighbourhood of the barracks, for Captain and Mrs. Crawley. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term, in that Quarter, near the Banking-house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Caddy keeps her own little carriage now instead of hiring one, and lives full two miles further westward than Newman Street. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And he advocated a national army only because he saw the Italian method of carrying on war by hiring bands of foreign mercenaries was a hopeless one. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The discussions ended in our hiring for him, by the month, a neat little furnished lodging in a quiet old house near Queen Square. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

校对:马奇