Host

(noun.) an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association.

(noun.) a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion.

(noun.) archaic terms for army.

(noun.) any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event; 'Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games'.

(noun.) the owner or manager of an inn.

(noun.) a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there.

(noun.) (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor.

(verb.) be the host of or for; 'We hosted 4 couples last night'.

伯娜丁整理

• Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Here the peerless Saladin met the Christian host some seven hundred years ago, and broke their power in Palestine for all time to come. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We should have liked so much to have seen and thanked our host. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Of all that mighty host, none but the two faithful spies ever lived to set their feet in the Promised Land. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I should think so,' replied the jolly host. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Let me,' says the large man, trying to attract the attention of his wife in the distance, 'have the pleasure of presenting Mrs Podsnap to her host. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The whole looked, as the host of the Rochester Arms had said, quite a desolate spot. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Miss Volumnia with a third little scream takes flight, wishing her hosts--O Lud! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• When he went to his shack he found a native cook installed there, and had to submit to the hospitality of his hosts. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He had, as I well knew, hosts of friends in Frizinghall; and he would be at no loss how to fill up his time until I returned to the hotel. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore for multitude, etc. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end--and what comes next! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Their time is the day of vengeance; their signal, the word of the Lord of hosts, thundering with the voice of His excellency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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