factotum
GRE,1
英[fæk'təʊtəm]
|美[fæk'totəm]
日语:事実
法语:factotum
德语:Faktotum
韩语:잡역부
俄语:factótum
牛津词典
noun
- 勤杂工；事务总管
a person employed to do a wide variety of jobs for sb
词形变化
双语例句
- I was employed as housekeeper, nanny, and general factotum.
我是管家、保姆和总勤杂工。
- Factotum initial: An initial letter surrounded by ornamentation, and can thus be variously patterned to match the content of the text.
花饰起首字母：围绕着很多装饰的起首字母。它配合正文内容，有着不同的图案装饰。
语源
mid 16th cent. (originally in the phrases dominum(or magister) factotum, translating roughly as master of everything, and Johannes factotemJohn do-it-all or Jack of all trades): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac!do! (imperative of facere) + totumthe whole thing (neuter of totus)