mid-13c. "one whose occupation is sawing timber into planks, boards, etc." (as a surname from c. 1200), alteration of sawer, agent noun from saw (v.), influenced by French-derived words in -ier (such as lawyer, bowyer, clothier).
双语例句
1. Mr. Sawyer goes to work and the children go to school.
索耶先生去上班,孩子们去上学.
来自新概念英语第一册
2. 'But you are not English,'said the wood - sawyer,'though you wear English dress?'
“ 可你不是英国人, ”锯木工问, “ 虽然你一身英国装. ”
来自英汉文学 - 双城记
3. Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.
汤姆-索亚和撒切尔法官同乘一条小艇.
来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
4. " Tom Sawyer, the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main.
“ 我乃西班牙海黑衣侠盗,汤姆-索亚.
来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
5. Why, they'd say,'Mph! Tom Sawyer's Gang ! pretty low characters in it!'
