hostler

来自hostel,旅店，-er,人。即旅店老板，后用于指旅店服务员，特别用于指帮客人喂马的人。

hostler (n.)

late 14c., "one who tends to horses at an inn," also, occasionally, "innkeeper," from Anglo-French hostiler, Old French hostelier "innkeeper, steward" (12c., Modern French hôtelier), from Medieval Latin hostilarius "the monk who entertains guests at a monastery," from hospitale "inn" (see hospital). See also ostler.

1. Ma Wu's hostler took care of three horses and one carriage.

马武将军有个马夫,分管三匹马、一辆车,整天跟车马打交道.

2. Ma Wu asked the hostler, " Where do the weeds grow? "

马武问马夫: “ 治病的猪耳草长在什么地方 啊 ? ”

3. The hostler ran to report it to the general immediately.

马夫急忙跑到将军帐内,把这事禀告马武.

4. He to the hostler to fetch peck of oysters, and give them to his horse.

于是,他让旅店的马夫去拿些牡蛎来喂他的马.