agent

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
    — Seeing we are so wonderfully endowed with priceless gifts by our Heavenly Father, will he not require usury at our hands? He will. But he has made us agents to ourselves, which makes us responsible for the way in which we use the talents he has given us, for the manner we expend the gold and silver, the wheat and fine flour, the cattle upon a thousand hills, and the wine and oil, for they all belong to Him
  2. One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.
    — He worked as an agent for the government.
  3. A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
    — Ronald Koeman has agreed a deal with Everton to become their new manager, his agent has reportedly told Dutch media. The agent Rob Jansen said, according to the popular Voetbal International website, that it was now down to Southampton and Everton to agree a compensation package for the Dutchman, who has a year remaining on his contract at St Mary’s.
  4. Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise).
    — @Gary, are you a PAP agent? ... =) trying to incite rebellion and revolution on this site so that the govt will have an excuse to take down this site?
  5. An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
    — So far seems to be the work of chemistry alone; at least we have no right to conclude that any other agent interferes; since hay, when it happens to imbibe moisture, exhibits nearly the same processes."
  6. In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
  7. The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
    — Near-synonym: doer
  8. A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
    — Nevada casinos are fleeced out of millions of dollars yearly by agents (cheats acting as players) in collusion with crooked Black Jack dealers and pit bosses.
  9. A law enforcement officer tasked with enforcing a specific field of law. US
    — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officers are just simply referred to as "ATF agents".
  10. A respectful term of address for an agent, especially a law enforcement agent. US,capitalized,usually
    — Steve Haines (Robert Bogue): Agent Sanchez! Apprehend these suspects!

词形变化

agents plural

词汇关系

近义词
actor performer
反义词
patient recipient undergoer
衍生词
access agent agented agentese agentess agent general agent-general agenthood agential agentic agenticity agenting agentive agentless agentlike agent noun agent of influence Agent Orange agent-oriented agent participle agentry agentship agentspace alpha-adrenergic blocking agent antibacterial agent anti-caking agent anticaking agent antimicrobial agent baggage agent bargain agent binding agent bioagent bleaching agent blister agent blowing agent bonding agent book agent bulking agent casting agent catalytic agent change agent chelating agent chemical agent chemoagent clarifying agent cleaning agent clearing agent coagent coating agent colour retention agent contract agent contrast agent count agent counteragent counting agent crown agent cyberagent double agent dry agent drying agent enforcement agent estate agent firming agent flavoring flavouring agent flour treatment agent foaming agent foreign agent free agent gelling agent glazing agent house agent immunoagent improving agent Indian agent infeasible agent infectious agent innocent agent insurance agent intelligence agent intelligent agent interagent land agent law agent leavening agent lifting agent mail user agent marriage agent monoagent moral agent multiagent multi-agent system nanoagent nerve agent nettle agent newsagent nonagent oxidising agent oxidizing agent parliamentary agent press agent principal-agent problem processing agent purchasing agent raising agent real estate agent reducing agent road agent road-agent sales agent secret agent select agent service agent shipping agent shopping agent sleeper agent sourcing agent special agent structuring agent subagent superagent surfactant teachable agent thickening agent ticket agent transfer agent travel agent triple agent underagent user agent voluntary agent wetting agent whitening agent
相关词
act action agency proxy

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin agēnsder.
English agent
From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).
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