agent
- n.(演员、音乐家、运动员、作家等的)代理人;（化学）剂;(企业、政治等的)经纪人;动因(指对事态起重要作用的人、事物);原动力;施事者
复数： agents
ag- 加强 + -ent 某种人
agentnoun
（企业、政治等的）代理人，经纪人
a person whose job is to act for, or manage the affairs of, other people in business, politics, etc.
an insurance agent
保险经纪人
Our agent in New York deals with all US sales.
我们在纽约的代理商经办在整个美国的销售。
（演员、音乐家、运动员、作家等的）代理人，经纪人
a person whose job is to arrange work for an actor, musician, sports player etc. or to find sb who will publish a writer's work
a theatrical/literary agent
剧院经纪人；文稿（出版）代理人
an enemy agent
敌方特务
原动力，动因（指对事态起重要作用的人、事物）
a person or thing that has an important effect on a situation
The charity has been an agent for social change.
这个慈善机构一直推动社会变革。
（化学）剂
a chemical or a substance that produces an effect or a change or is used for a particular purpose
cleaning/oxidizing agents
去污剂；氧化剂
施事者；施动者；行为主体
the person or thing that does an action (expressed as the subject of an active verb, or in a ‘by’ phrase with a passive verb)
agent
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N-COUNT 代理人;代理商
An agent is a person who looks after someone else's business affairs or does business on their behalf.You are buying direct, rather than through an agent.
你这是直接购买，而不是通过代理人。
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N-COUNT （艺术领域的）代理人，经纪人
An agent in the arts world is a person who gets work for an actor or musician, or who sells the work of a writer to publishers. -
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N-COUNT 间谍；特务
An agent is a person who works for a country's secret service.All these years he's been an agent for the East.
这些年来他一直是为东方国家效力的一位间谍。
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N-COUNT 动力;媒介;因素;工具
If you refer to someone or something as the agent of a particular effect, you mean that they cause this effect.In many societies young men regard themselves as highly active, the agents of change, shapers of the world.
在许多社会中，年轻人将自己看成是高度活跃的分子，是变革的推动者和世界的塑造者。
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N-COUNT （化学）剂;作用剂
A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent....the bleaching agent in white flour.
白面粉中的漂白剂
noun
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- the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
- Synonym: agentive role
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- an active and efficient cause;capable of producing a certain effect
- their research uncovered new disease agents
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- a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
- Synonym: factor broker
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- a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations
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- any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
- Synonym: federal agent
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- a substance that exerts some force or effect
数据来源：WordNet
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You are buying direct , rather than through an agent .
你这是直接购买，而不是通过代理人。
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As an agent , you may have an inside track when good deals become available .
作为代理人，一旦有划算的买卖你恐怕能近水楼台先得月。
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Our agent in New York deals with all US sales .
我们在纽约的代理商经办在整个美国的销售。
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We have two agents on the case .
我们有两名探员在侦察此案。
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The charity has been an agent for social change .
这个慈善机构一直推动社会变革。
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I rang round all the travel agents in the area .
我打电话询问了那个地区所有的旅行社。
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He works in a travel agent 's.
他在一家旅行社工作。
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Most travel agents are prepared to tailor travel arrangements to meet individual requirements .
为了满足个别需要，大多数旅行社都愿意做出专门的旅游安排。
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She was a free agent , answerable to no one for her behaviour .
她是个自由分子，言行不受任何人约束。
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He 's busy touting his client 's latest book around London 's literary agents .
他正忙于向伦敦各文学作品代理人兜售他的委托人的一部新书。
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The CIA agents successfully infiltrated into the terrorist organizations .
中央情报局的特工人员成功地渗入了恐怖分子组织。
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Hollywood agents have been sniffing around him .
一些好莱坞的经纪人一直追着想要他。
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The house was terribly small and cramped , but the agent described it as a bijou residence .
房子十分狭小拥挤，但经纪人却把它说成是小巧别致的住宅。
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Remember , the estate agent is working for the vendor .
记住，房地产代理商是为房地产卖方服务的。
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An agent bought the rights to his life
一个经纪人购买了他的传记的出版权。
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Money can be sent to any one of 22,000 agents worldwide for collection .
可以把钱汇给分布在世界各地的22,000名筹款代理人中的任何一位。
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Crime cases were something that agents solved , and to him the case was everything
犯罪案件是执法人员要解决的事情，对于他而言，案件就是一切。
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Briefly , no less than nine of our agents have passed information to us .
总而言之，至少有9名特工向我们传递了情报。
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Grill your travel agent about the facilities for families with children
请仔细询问旅行代办人会为带孩子的家庭提供何种设施。
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We talked to her agent . He 's your agent , too , right ?
我们和她的经纪人谈过了。他也是你的经纪人，对吧？
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Bonus notices were issued each year from head office to local agents
分红通告每年由总公司发送至地方代理商。
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My agent told me , ' This 'll make your name a household word . '
我的经纪人告诉我：“这将使你一举成名。”
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The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years
该特工人员为东德做了20多年的间谍。
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Cheap flights are available from budget travel agent from £ 240 .
收费低廉的旅行社可以提供240英镑起的低价机票。
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Why should he have risked all that to become an agent of a foreign power ?
为什么就该他冒失去这一切的风险做外国势力的代理人呢？
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The company is a fully bonded member of the Association of British Travel Agents
该公司是英国旅行社协会的完全担保会员。
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We took it as read that he must have been a KGB agent
我们完全相信他曾经是一名克格勃特工。
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The life of an FBI agent wasn 't always as glamorous as people thought .
美国联邦调查局特工的生活并非总像人们想象的那么刺激。
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He worked in a travel agent 's.
他在一家旅行社工作。
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Some countries have infiltrated their agents into the Republic .
一些国家已派间谍渗入了该共和国内部。