retainers

英 [rɪˈteɪnəz]

美 [rɪˈteɪnərz]

n.  (聘请律师等的)预付费用，保留金; (为保留租房而付的)租房订金; 牙齿固位体; 保持器
retainer的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 定金;预付金
  Aretaineris a fee that you pay to someone in order to make sure that they will be available to do work for you if you need them to.
  1. I'll need a five-hundred-dollar retainer...
     我将收取500美元的定金。
  2. Liz was being paid a regular monthly retainer.
     利兹每月得到一笔预付金。
• N-COUNT （服务多年的）仆人，家仆
  A servant who has been with one family for a long time can be referred to as aretainer.
  1. I found the gardener, a family retainer, morosely surveying the scene.
     我发现这个园丁——家里一个服侍多年的仆人，愁眉苦脸地审视着这个场景。

双语例句

• Press the cowl top trim panel down until the snap clip retainers engage in the top of the instrument panel.
  向下压仪表板顶部饰板，直至夹扣定位器啮合到仪表板顶部。
• The costume or insigniaworn by the retainers of a feudal lord.
  装束封建主的随从所穿的服装或所戴标志。
• Retainers are made of brass, synthetic resins or others subject to individual bearing features and application conditions.
  保持架的材质有黄铜、合成树脂等，以轴承形式、使用条件而区分。
• Their investment in penthouses, and their employment of a few retainers and a concierge service, cannot compensate for any losses to a high-revenue, job-creating financial sector.
  这些投资者投资豪华公寓、聘用几名仆人和使用门房服务带来的好处，无法弥补收入高且创造就业的金融业遭受的损失。
• Install cables into the cable bracket and insure retainers are seated in the bracket.
  将钢缆安装到钢缆支架且支架中的扣件务必啮合。
• Engage the heater-A/ C wire harness connector and blower motor relay wire harness connector push-in retainers with their mounting holes in the heater-A/ C housing.
  将加热器-空调电线束接头和鼓风马达继电器电线束接头推入扣件与它们加热器-空调外壳里的固定孔啮合。
• The swashbuckling style of News International was rooted in an age when proprietors told politicians what to do, journalists did what they liked, and police officers were on cash retainers.
  新闻国际那种霸道的行事作风形成于一个新闻业老板对政客发号施令、记者对老板唯命是从、警察则贪财忘义的时代。
• Always use new self-locking nuts to fasten the lines and retainers.
  务必使用新自锁螺母紧固管路和固定件。
• One of his retainers, named arakawa, during a visit to the temple of gion, happened to see the picture being displayed there; and he afterwards talked about it at the palace.
  他的一位名叫荒川的侍从有次参观园神社时，碰巧看到在展示中的图画，事后他在宫殿里谈起此事。
• Install the serrated retainers at the ends of the cover.
  在盖的末端安装蛇型固定装置。