cashier
cashier — 名詞
1. someone who works at a checkout counter or till, taking money from customers and
收銀員
商店、銀行等處理收款的人員
someone who works at a checkout counter or till, taking money from customers and handing back change or receipts in places such as shops, banks, and restaurants.
The cashier at the supermarket smiled and handed Priya her change.
超市的收銀員微笑著把零錢遞給 Priya。
typical role: receiving payment and giving change
Yusuf worked as a cashier at a local bank for almost four years.
Yusuf 在一家本地銀行當了將近四年的收銀員。
cashier + at [place]
The cashier counted the notes twice before closing the drawer.
收銀員把鈔票數了兩次才關上抽屜。
A new cashier was hired to handle the evening rush at the cafe.
咖啡廳請了一位新的收銀員來處理傍晚的尖峰時段。
Leila handed the cashier a ten-dollar bill for her coffee.
Leila 把一張十元鈔票交給收銀員，買了一杯咖啡。
- customer
the person who pays, rather than the person who receives the payment
常見錯誤
cashier — 動詞
1. to officially force a member of the armed forces to leave their position as a pu
撤職;革職
因行為不當而強制軍人退役
to officially force a member of the armed forces to leave their position as a punishment for doing something wrong, especially something that brings shame on the person or the military.
The officer was cashiered for stealing food and supplies from the army camp.
那名軍官因偷竊軍營的食物和物資而被撤職。
passive: be cashiered for [reason]
After the investigation, the military court decided to cashier the sergeant.
調查結束後，軍事法庭決定將該中士革職。
active: cashier [person]
Two junior soldiers were cashiered for refusing to follow orders during combat.
兩名年輕士兵因在作戰期間拒絕服從命令而被勒令退伍。
The general was cashiered after evidence showed he had leaked secret plans.
證據顯示那位將軍洩漏了機密計畫，因此遭到撤職。
- commission
to formally give someone a military rank, the opposite of removing them
文法句型
cashier + [person]
be cashiered for [reason]
用法筆記
Almost always found in formal or historical writing about military discipline. The passive form (be cashiered) is more common than the active. This sense has no connection to the noun 'cashier' meaning a shop worker — the two words arrived in English from different language roots.
常見錯誤
2. to decide that something is no longer useful or acceptable and get rid of it — f
丟棄;摒棄
認為無用而廢除或拋棄
to decide that something is no longer useful or acceptable and get rid of it — for example, rejecting an old rule, a failed plan, or an idea that has been shown to be wrong.
The committee voted to cashier the old policy and draft a new one.
委員會投票決定廢除舊政策，重新草擬一份。
cashier + [policy/rule]
Modern researchers have cashiered the theory as having no scientific basis.
現今的研究人員認為這套理論缺乏科學根據，已經予以摒棄。
The editor decided to cashier the weakest chapter from the book entirely.
編輯決定將書中最弱的那一章整篇刪掉。
Historians cashiered the old account of the battle when new records appeared.
新的史料出現後，歷史學家摒棄了關於該戰役的舊說法。
文法句型
cashier + [something]
cashier + [idea/plan/rule]
用法筆記
A very rare sense found mostly in academic or literary writing. The object is typically an abstract thing (a rule, theory, plan, tradition) rather than a physical object. This sense is closely related to the military-dismissal sense in that both mean 'to remove or eliminate.'