a job that you do for somebody that involves going somewhere to take a message, to buy something, deliver goods, etc. 差使;差事 He often runs errands for his grandmother. 他经常给他的祖母跑腿儿。 Her boss sent her on an errand into town. 老板派她进城办事去了。
Extra ExamplesShe made her brother run some little errands for her. 他让弟弟帮他跑腿办些小事。 She's gone on an errand for her mother. 她替母亲办点儿事去了。 He always seemed to have a lot of errands to do. 他似乎总是有很多差事要做。 It was a perfectly simple errand—what went wrong? 这是一件非常简单的差事——哪里出了问题?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- small
- simple
- …
- do
- go on
- run
- …
- on an errand
Word OriginOld English ǣrende ‘message, mission’, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German ārunti, and obscurely to Swedish ärende and Danish ærinde.