`Do you know, Mr Passepartout, that this pretended tour in eighty days may conceal some secret errand-perhaps a diplomatic mission?’

“路路通先生，您是不是知道，这位装着要八十天环游地球的先生，暗地里可能负有另外的秘密使命……比方说外交使命什么的!”

What is your errand , then, with me, sir?

“那末，你对我有什么要求呢，阁下?”

“On a far less pleasant errand , sir,”replied Mr. Pickwick, the colour mounting to his face at the recollection

“我的事情可不愉快得多了，先生”匹克威克先生回答，一回忆起来，血就冲到脸上来了。

go on a fool’s errand

白白受累, 无谓奔走

go on a sleeveless errand

白白受累, 无谓奔走

go on an errand

出差.

off on some fool errand or other.

出去干一些愚蠢的差事

The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errand

村里的女人也常常差遣他为她们跑腿。

It was true that Sarah was full of self-importance, and made any errand she ran seem a matter of life or death

的确，萨拉总是把自己看得很了不起，把她的每一次跑腿都办得象是一桩生死攸关的大事。

Drouet abandoned his claim and was seen no more. Of Hurstwood’s death she was not even aware. A slow, black boat setting out from the pier at Twenty-seventh Street upon its weekly errand bore, with many others, his nameless body to the Potter’s Field.

杜洛埃放弃了自己的要求,不再露面了。赫斯渥的死,她根本就不知道。一只每星期从二十七街码头慢慢驶出的黑船,把他的和许多其他的无名尸体一起载到了保得坟场。

Then the men told their errand .

接着，来者才说明了他们的来意。

She would interrupt the applicant and wheel across the floor on some imaginary errand

她会打断申请者的谈话，装出有事要做的样子，坐着轮椅穿过房间。

She had never done this thing before, and lacked courage. To avoid a certain indefinable shame she felt at being caught spying about for a position, she quickened her steps and assumed an air of indifference supposedly common to one upon an errand .

她以前从未找过工作，所以胆子很小。怕被人看穿她在找活干，让她感到一阵无以名状的羞愧，因此她赶紧加快步子，装出一副有事在身的那种人常有的漫不经心的神气。

Expanding the Study of the Knight Errant Culture-Reading Wang Li’s on The motif and image of the knight errand literature

开拓武侠文化研究的深广度―读王立《武侠文学母题与意象研究》

Passepartout went on his errand enchanted

路路通当时就很高兴地去了。

Should he divulge Fix’s real errand to his master?

路路通是否应该把这些事情告诉他的主人呢?

The boy quickly went on an errand with money clasped in his hands.

男孩手里握着钱快速地跑出去买东西。

Your errand was to mail the letter.

你的差事是去寄这封信

had my assistant run the errand .

让我的助手跑腿

If little Pearl were entertained with faith and trust, as a spirit messenger no less than an earthly child, might it not be her errand to soothe away the sorrow that lay cold in her mother’s heart, and converted it into a tomb?-

如果把小珠儿不仅当作一个尘世的孩子,也当作一个精神使者,对她抱有忠诚与信任,那么,她难道就不能承担起她的使命,把冷冷地藏在她母亲心中、从而把那颗心变成坟墓的忧伤扫荡净尽吗?

If neighbors called, Eugene found himself obliged to leave on an urgent errand . After awhile the neighbors left him to himself.

如果邻居来访，叶甫盖尼总会发现自己有紧急任务要去处理而不得不离开。经过一段时期，邻居们都不再理睬他了。

He was sent on an errand .

他被遣出办事

He rose from errand boy to president.

他从差役升到总经理。

He bustled the maid off on an errand .

他催女佣赶快去办差事。

He went out on an errand

他因事外出。

The sun beheld the youth dazzled with the novelty and splendor of the palatial scene, and inquired the purpose of his errand

太阳神见到进来的小青年被他从未见到过的这宫殿周围的辉煌场面弄得头晕目眩，就问他到这里来有什么事。

a sleeveless errand

徒劳的差使.

Go on an errand for sb.

为某人跑腿[办事]

I’ll go there to do an errand

我将去那里办件事。

I’m afraid you’re going on a fool’s errand .

我恐怕你会枉费心机。

errand-boy

役童, 跑腿的人

errand boy

n.商店跑差

errand-girl

供差遣的女童仆

on an errand

ph.1. 为了办一件差事

secret errand

密使

fool’s errand

ph.1. 徒劳的奔波

made an errand

vbl.假推有事出外(找借口外出)

make an errand

(为某事)跑一段路

errand of mercy

1.帮助受困者之行;雪中送炭

go on an errand

vi.出差(跑腿)

a fool’s errand

徒劳的任务

send a baby on an errand

干注定要失败的事情