counter
/ˈkaʊn.tɚ/ 名词 B2中文： 棋子、计数、计数器、櫃台
- One who counts. · He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc. · He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A hit counter.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted. · He put his money on the counter, and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
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Now and then you might see the lights of a cigar store or of an all-night lunch counter; but the majority of the doors belonged to business places that had long since been closed.
At the end of each ten weeks with the extra capital thus accumulated, he purchased one gentleman’s evening from the bargain counter of stingy old Father Time.
For the next sixty-nine evenings he would be dining in cheviot and worsted at dubious _table d’hôtes_, at whirlwind lunch counters, on sandwiches and beer in his hall-bedroom.
He could contrive to deal with them when he knew exactly what he wanted and could point it out; but in such a matter as this, requiring explanation and consultation, Matthew felt that he must be sure of a man behind the counter.
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