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post

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post1 /pəʊst $ poʊst/ ●●● S2 W2 noun  
1  job 工作 [countableC] formalBEJOB/WORK a job, especially an important one in a large organization 〔尤指大型机构内重要的〕工作，职位 SYN position
 I applied for the post and was asked to attend an interview.
我申请了那个职位，被要求参加面试。
 She was offered the post of ambassador to India.
她被委任为驻印度大使。
 He will take up his post as Head of Modern Languages in September.
他将于9月份就任当代语言系系主任。
 Goddard has held the post since 1998.
戈达德自1998年起一直担任该职务。
 Unfortunately they were unable to find a suitable person to fill the post.
遗憾的是他们找不到一个合适的人选填补空缺。
 Mr Thomson resigned his £50,000 a year post in April.
4 月，汤姆森先生辞去了他年收入5万英镑的职位。
 She now holds a senior post in the Department of Education.
她目前在教育部担任高级职务。
 the creation of 4,000 new teaching posts
创造4,000个新的教学职位
► see thesaurus at job
2  POSTAL SYSTEM 邮政系统the post British EnglishBrETCMLETTER the official system for carrying letters, packages etc from one place to another 邮政，邮递 SYN mail
by post
 The winners will be notified by post.
将以邮件形式通知获奖者。
in the post
 Your letter must have got lost in the post.
你的信一定是寄丢了。
 I’ll put a copy of the book in the post (=send it).
我会寄一本书过来。
through the post
 A parcel arrived through the post.
有个包裹寄到了。
Examples from the Corpus
through the post• Hampshire were criticised by police after asking applicants for Benson & Hedges Cup final tickets to send blank cheques through the post.• If exchanging contracts through the post and dealing with a sale and purchase, the steps must be carefully synchronised.• I bought a worm culture through the post some five years ago.• The Trust is well aware of the undesirability of sending too many offers to members through the post.• Only 2 percent would choose to buy a policy through the post, while 26 percent opted for the broker route.• It's being sent out to the public through the post with no attempt to spare her pride or hide her name.• Documentation is sent through the post when the software is downloaded.• Provided there's nothing visibly offensive on the cover, it's not illegal to send catalogues like this through the post.
3  letters 信件 [uncountableU] British EnglishBrETCMLETTER letters, packages etc that are sent and delivered 邮件 SYN mail
 Was there any post for me today?
今天有我的邮件吗？
 Emma was opening her post.
埃玛正在拆邮件。
4  collection/delivery 收集/投递 [singular, uncountableU] British EnglishBrETCM when letters are collected or delivered 收取邮件；投递信件 SYN mail
 What time does the post go (=get collected)?
什么时候来取邮件？
(the) first/second/last post (=the first, second etc collection or delivery of letters each day) 〔每天的〕第一次/第二次/最后一次收取[投递]信件
 Applications must arrive by first post on September 23.
申请书必须在9月23日第一次邮件投递时间前寄到。
catch/miss the post (=post your letter in time for it to be collected, or not in time) 赶上/错过取件时间
→ by return (of post) at return2(12)
5  piece of wood/metal 一块木头/金属 [countableC]TB a strong upright piece of wood, metal etc that is fixed into the ground, especially to support something 柱，杆，桩
 a fence post
篱笆桩
→ bedpost, gatepost(1), lamp-post, signpost1(1)
6  football/hockey etc 足球/曲棍球等 [countableC]DS one of the two upright pieces of wood between which players try to kick or hit the ball in football, hockey etc 球门柱 SYN goalpost
 The ball hit the post and bounced off.
球击中门柱，弹了出去。
7  newspaper 报纸 [singular] used in the names of some newspapers 邮报〔用于某些报纸名称中〕
 the ‘Washington Post’
《华盛顿邮报》
8  SOLDIER/GUARD ETC 士兵/卫兵等somebody’s post PLACEthe place where a soldier, guard etc is expected to be in order to do their job 某人的岗位[哨位]
at somebody’s post
 By 5 am the soldiers were already at their posts.
清晨5点士兵们已经在哨位上站岗了。
 No one was allowed to leave their post.
任何人都不得离开岗位。
Examples from the Corpus
leave ... post• Even if Dole leaves his post, there is no guarantee Lott would win a vote among Senate Republicans for majority leader.• There he would rejoin the regiment that he had left on being posted to Britain.• She left the post when she was named by Gov.• Because utmost vigilance was required of him, he was reluctant to leave his post for any length of time.• I thought that Duncan Nichol was leaving his post as chief executive of the health service in June.
9. border/military/customs/police post a place, especially one on a border, where soldiers or police are guarding, checking etc something 边境哨所/军事哨所/海关关卡/警察岗亭
Examples from the Corpus
border/military/customs/police post• When she first arrived, she had thought the place as orderly as a military post.• Deng was made senior deputy premier and soon added party and military posts.• This commemorates the creation in 1829 of a political and military post to govern the islands.• Administrative offices and on-campus police posts were damaged by stones and petrol bombs in three Tunis University faculties.• But yesterday at the Hendaye border post, near Bayonne, lorries were passing freely without any form of control.• However, he formally accepted the appointment on April 7 after resigning his military posts.• In reality guerrilla action was largely indiscriminate with sporadic attacks on the occasional landlord, local official, or police post.• The border post formalities are quickly completed.
10  RACE 竞赛the post  (also the finishing post)DSH the place where a race finishes, especially a horse race 〔尤指赛马的〕终点，终点标志
Examples from the Corpus
past the post• Eleven minutes later Andrew McBride saw his set piece effort deflected past the post by a defender's stick.• One goes to elect a member of parliament on a first past the post, single member constituency basis.• And even when the festival's over all eyes will be on Cheltenham to see who is first past the post.• But in the second half, Newcastle were first past the post.• Wolfhound, their second representative yesterday, was fourth past the post although later promoted a place.• The midfielder's dangerous cross was put just past the post by defender Andrius Skerla with Larsson waiting to pounce.• A narrow river, little more than a stream, lapsed gently over its stones past the post office.
11  internet message 因特网信息 [countableC] (also posting) a message sent to an Internet discussion group so that all members of the group can read it 帖子
→ as deaf as a post at deaf(1), → be driven/passed from pillar to post at pillar(4), → pip somebody at the post at pip2(1), → first-past-the-post
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 1: a job, especially an important one in a large organization
verbs
hold a post (=have a job)
He had previously held the post of Foreign Minister.
apply for a post
I am writing to apply for the post of secretary.
take up a post (=start a new job)
She will take up her new post next month.
leave a post
The previous ambassador left his post in June.
resign (from) a post (=leave it)
John Sargent has resigned his post as chairman.
be dismissed from a post (=be told to leave)
As a result of the scandal, he was dismissed from his post.
offer somebody a post
He was offered the post of Secretary of State for Wales.
appoint somebody to a post (=give someone a job officially)
Mr Collingwood has been appointed to the post of Headteacher.
fill a post (=find someone to do a job)
They have advertised the post but it hasn't yet been filled.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + post
a senior post
Senior posts in industry attract very high salaries.
a junior post
He was offered a junior post in a bank.
a permanent/temporary post
I have a two-year contract, not a permanent post.
a full-time/part-time post
a part-time post as a university lecturer
a teaching post
My first teaching post was in outer London.
an administrative post
For the next twelve years, he held various administrative posts in Bombay.
a government post
I decided to apply for a local government post.
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2:
verbs
send something by post
They sent me the contract by post.
put something in the post (=put it in a box to be collected)
I put it in the post on Friday, so it should have arrived today.
get something in the post (=receive it)
Did you get anything in the post today?
something comes/arrives in the post
This letter came in the post this morning.
something gets lost in the post
I'm afraid the cheque must have got lost in the post.
adjectives
first-class post
The package arrived by first-class post.
second-class post
Items sent by second-class post can take up to five days to arrive.
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 4: when letters are collected or delivered
adjectives
first/second/last post (=the first, second, or last collection or delivery of letters each day)
The last post is at 5.30.
verbs
catch the post (=post your letter in time for it to be collected)
He wrote the letter hurriedly because he was anxious to catch the post.
miss the post (=not post your letter in time for it to be collected)
If I miss the post today, the card won’t arrive on her birthday.
the post goes (=it is collected)
The first post goes at 7.30 am.
Examples from the Corpus
post• It has been increased by 27 posts.• Was there any post for me this morning?• Her nightgown hung on a bed post.• You will receive the application form by post.• a fence post• The tarp rolled askew, one end wrapped around the goal post.• Paul was opening his post when Margot phoned.• He had found the observation post two miles beyond the outer rim of the Jabal Hamrin.• When he took up his present post at the BBC he was only 23.• Environmentalists supported Murphy as the best candidate for the director's post.• When headmen's posts became vacant, many were sold by the chief headmen to the highest bidder.• She has been offered the post of director of UNICEF.• A niece took over the post office when she married, and it was moved to the present premises.• When the post came, she searched anxiously for his scrawled handwriting.• The post was duly advertised and an appointment was made from the end of June.• the post of deputy environmental secretary• Soldiers are not allowed to leave their posts.
teaching posts• Everyone in the profession is aware that some people can be absent from teaching posts and not be missed.• Some former course members have since obtained fulltime teaching posts in adult education.• And several teaching posts may also go.• With half the teaching posts unfilled, only 60 % of children receive an education.
opening ... post• Edwina Currie was opening her post, Sir James Spicer was picking his nose.• She was opening the post in her private office at Kensington Palace, a task she usually relished.
catch/miss the post• On his return he wrote several letters rather hurriedly because he was anxious to catch the post.
fence post• Patrick leaned in satisfaction on a fence post.• I would have been great as a chef, a Mandarin actor, or a fence post.• He was beaten with a fence post and stabbed.• Huge pyres of old railway sleepers and fence posts are being built to burn the bodies.• The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth.• On the right is a worker painting bowling pins the size of fence posts.• Our big thing here recently in the Southwest is displaying boots on fence posts along the highways.• Soldier impaled on fence post tells how he survived.
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post2 ●●● S3 verb [transitiveT]  
1  letter 信件 British EnglishBrETCMSEND to send a letter, package etc by post 邮寄，寄出〔信件、包裹等〕 SYN mail
2  post something through somebody’s door/letterbox British EnglishBrE to push something through someone’s letterbox 把某物塞进某人的门缝里/信箱里
3  job 工作PMPGOSEND if you are posted somewhere, your employer sends you to work there, usually for several years 派驻，调派
4  public notice 公告 (also post up)PUT to put up a public notice about something on a wall or notice board 张贴，贴出〔公告〕
5  guard 卫兵PMSEND to make someone be in a particular place in order to guard a building, check who enters or leaves a place, watch something etc 使驻守，设置〔岗哨等〕 SYN station
6  keep somebody posted spokenTELL to regularly tell someone the most recent news about something 经常向某人报告最新的情况
Examples from the Corpus
post on• I told Bernard to infiltrate the team so that he can keep us posted on their movements.
7  profit/loss etc 利润/损失等 especially American EnglishAmE to officially record and announce information about a company’s financial situation or a country’s economic situation 发布，公布，宣布
8  internet message 因特网信息 to put a message or computer document on the Internet so that other people can see it 贴，发布
9. be posted missing British EnglishBrEPM if a soldier is posted missing, it is announced officially that they have disappeared 〔士兵〕被宣布失踪
10. post bail  law especially American EnglishAmE to pay a specific amount of money in order to be allowed to leave prison before your trial 交付保释金
Examples from the Corpus
post bail• Mott was released after posting $10,000 bail.• If he hadn't posted bail for her she would now be preparing for her first night in jail.
Examples from the Corpus
post• I mailed my dad a postcard from Alaska.• It is being centred on the North- east, where the three explosive packages were posted.• Information abounds - piste maps are dispensed beside lift queues, weather forecasts are posted everywhere and broadcast incessantly.• They have posted guards at every door to make sure no one enters the building.• I must remember to post Joey's birthday card.• Sentries are being posted outside all government buildings.• In the third quarter the company posted profits of $14.6 million.• P 500 and the Nasdaq index posted similar advances.• The trading losses were announced as Pier 1 posted strong sales.• Picture yourself posting the letter, and feeling that it was a simple matter after all!• If no journal is maintained, transactions would simply be posted to the ledger as they occurred.• Tickets will be posted to you unless otherwise requested.• Rangers have posted warnings at the entrance to the trails.
post something (off) to somebody• Paul Bosvelt's cross to the near post appeared to be converted by Kluivert and was credited as such by the referee.• Closed health posts will need to be reopened.• The posts had to be two yards apart to support the net, which meant there were four hundred of them!• Earlier, Craggs had kicked a penalty and then hit the post when attempting to convert Steve Towns' try.• Preand post tour packages to New Orleans are also available.• He was posted first to Reading, and was soon proving himself a soldier and horseman of rare incompetence.• He's being posted out to the West Indies and he's asked her to marry him and go with him.• This new software also lets you post documents to the World Wide Web.
posted ... profits ... sales• Santa Clara-based 3Com Corp. yesterday posted record profits and sales for the third fiscal quarter ended February 29.
post- /pəʊst $ poʊst/ prefix  
XXlater than or after something 后，以后
 the post-war years (=the years after a particular war)
战后的年月
 the post-1979 Conservative government
1979年以后的保守党政府
the PostPost, the  
1. the washington post 《华盛顿邮报》
n2. the new york post
n3. the sunday post
From Longman Business Dictionary
post-post- /pəʊstpoʊst/ prefix
later than, after
developing a post-acquisition strategy
Its share price rocketed from its post-crash low.
→ compare pre-
postpost1 /pəʊstpoʊst/ noun
1the post especially British EnglishBrE the official system for sending and receiving letters, parcels etcSYN MAIL
items that are lost or damaged in the post
We’ve cut our costs by usingfirst class post only for urgent items.
Winners will be notified by post.
A copy of the document should be sent in the post.
Only 2% of those questioned would choose to buy a policy through the post.
→ see also Freepost
→ registered post
2[singular, uncountableU] especially British EnglishBrE a time when letters are collected or delivered
Place items in the out-tray by 4.45 to meet the last post.
3by return (of) post if you reply to a letter by return of post, you reply almost immediately
Send payment by return of post.
4[uncountableU] British EnglishBrE letters, parcels etcSYN MAIL
Was there any post for me today?
She always opens her post when she arrives.
5[countableC, uncountableU]JOB a job, especially an important or well paid oneSYN POSITION
How long did you hold your previous post?
The bank chief plans to resign his post (=leave it) later this year.
Most of the executives interviewed had already been in post for 12 months.
6[countableC]COMPUTING a message sent to an Internet discussion group so that all members of the group can read itSYN posting
→ see also trading post
postpost2 verb [transitiveT]
1especially British EnglishBrE to send a letter, parcel etc using the official serviceSYN AmE mail
the correct way to pack and protect the items you post
Shareholders will be sent details in a newsletter due to be posted today.
2FINANCE to offically record and announce results for a company or information about the economy
The groupposted a 25%gain in second-quarter net income.
The company shed a point afterposting a second-quarter loss of 35 cents a share.
Shares closed lower as the government posted worse inflation figures than the City expected.
3ACCOUNTING to enter a figure in a LEDGER (=a book used by a company to record money received or spent)
post something to something
The billing office will check that all charges have been posted to the guest’s account.
4COMPUTING to put a message or computer document on the Internet so that other people can see it
If companies post information on a web page, everyone has access to it.
5post bail → see under bail1
Origin post-
Latin post “after”
post1 noun →n COLLOCATIONS1 →n COLLOCATIONS2
→n COLLOCATIONS3post2 verb →n GRAMMAR1post- prefixPost, the
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