agent
/ˈeɪ̯d͡ʒənt/ 名词 A2中文： 代理人、主事
- One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
- One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them. · He worked as an agent for the government.
- A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
- Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise).
- An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
- In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
- The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy". · Near-synonym: doer
- A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
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On entering his room, I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat.
Holmes, sir,” said the police agent loftily.
Of course, you will say: ‘Why not take police precautions against him?’ The reason is that I am well convinced that it is from his agents the blow will fall.
But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized.
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