staff

英 [stɑːf] 美 [stæf]

• n. 员工；全体人员；全体职员；拐杖；杆；棒；五线谱
• vt. 配备员工

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [S] [C] 全体职员; 教职员

   group of assistants working together in a business

2. [P] 参谋,幕僚

   chief of staff

v. (动词)

1. vt. 为…提供职员

   supply with staff; provide the workers for

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 权杖，拐杖，职杖，牧杖
2. 棍，棒，杖，竿
3. 标尺，标杆
4. 支柱
5. 工作人员，职员
6. 参谋人员，参谋机构，幕僚
7. 【音】五线谱
8. 旗竿

adj. 形容词

1. 人事的
2. 参谋（人员）的，专职的

v. 动词

1. 给...调配部员，给...配备职员，为…配备人员
2. 配备
3. 组成
4. 在…工作，任职于

英英释义

Noun:

1. personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task;

   "the hospital has an excellent nursing staff"
   "the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions"
   

2. a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose;

   "he walked with the help of a wooden staff"
   

3. the body of teachers and administrators at a school;

   "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
   

4. building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration

5. a rod carried as a symbol

6. (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

Verb:

1. provide with staff;

   "This position is not always staffed"
   

2. serve on the staff of;

   "The two men staff the reception desk"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. I find the hotel staff particularly courteous.
   我发现饭店员工特别谦恭有礼。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The school's teaching staff is/are excellent.
   该校的教师队伍是优秀的。
2. This company has a staff of fifty.
   这家公司有50名职员。
3. The manager fired an old staff yesterday.
   经理昨天解雇了一名老职员。
4. He works at the General Staff.
   他在总参谋部工作。

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. They staffed a new school.
   他们给新学校配齐了教职工。
2. There's nobody to staff the office today.
   今天办公室没人。
3. We have not enough money to staff all our schools.
   我们没有足够的资金为所有学校配备人员。
4. How many employees will it take to staff this holiday resort?
   这个度假胜地需要配备多少雇员?
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5. The school is staffed entirely by graduate.
   这个学校的教职员工都是大学毕业生。
6. Most of our offices are staffed by volunteers.
   我们的大多数办公室是由志愿者充当工作人员的。
7. The hospital was staffed with sufficient numbers of trained personnel.
   医院配备数量充足、训练有素的人员。

经典引文

• The blind fiddler struck the earth with his staff.

  出自： Sir W. Scott

• I..dug my staff deeply into the snow.

  出自： J. Tyndall

• They had one son, who had grown up to be the staff and pride of their age.

  出自： fig.

• The Secretary's office was staffed by some fifty clerks.

  出自： J. P. Hennessy

• Building new hospitals..and staffing them with..well-paid administrators.

  出自：Woman

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• staff a new school 给新学校配备教职工
• staff the office 给办公室配备人员
• staff this holiday resort 为度假胜地配备雇员

～+副词

• staff finely 人员配备齐全
• staff sufficiently 人员配备充足
• staff tightly 人员紧缺

～+介词

• staff by volunteers 由志愿者充当工作人员
• staff with sufficient numbers of trained personnel 配备数量充足、训练有素的人员

词语用法

1. staff表示“全体人员”，指得是一个整体，不是单个人。如一个公司是一个staff，两公司就是两个staffs。staff也有其他表示方式，只是尚未被所有人接纳。

   We want more staff.
   我们需要更多的人员。

2. staff的表达中可与介词on连用。

   He is on the editorial staff of the newspaper.
   注意on不能被in替代。

n. (名词)

1. staff用以指“工作人员”的总称时,是集合名词,不用复数。作主语时,如强调整体,谓语动词用单数,如强调其成员个人,谓语动词用复数。

v. (动词)

1. staff的名词意思是“全体职员”,转化为动词则表示“为某部门配备人员或担任某部门的工作人员”。
2. staff是及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语。可用于被动结构。

词义辨析

cane，stick，staff

• 这些名词均有“手杖”之意。
• cane多指用藤或竹制成的细长的手杖。
• stick普通用词，指木制的细长手杖。
• staff多指走路爬山时用作支持或防卫使用的长木棒。

近反义词

【近义词】

• personnel 职员
• stick 手杖
• rod 杆
• pole 杆
• force 武力
• cane 手杖
• wand 棒
• committee 委员会
• crew 全体船员
• workforce 劳动力
• group 群
• gang 一群
• team 队
• body 身体
• scepter 君主节杖
• operate 操作
• run 跑
• work 工作
• control 掌控
• supervise 监督
• man 男人
• faculty （大学的）系或院...
• dependence 依赖
• entourage 随行人员
• orderly 有秩序的
• stem 柄
• provide 供给
• stave 桶板