purveyor

noun

1. 提供者；供应商；供应公司
   a person or company that supplies sth

1. N-COUNT 供应者；提供者；供应公司
   A purveyor of goods or services is a person or company that provides them.
   1. ...purveyors of gourmet foods.
      美味佳肴的提供者

1. It heralds a bold shift for a company that has gone from a purveyor of chintzy, off-brand sets to being a major industry disruptor in less than a decade.
   这款产品宣告，Vizio在不到十年的时间里，已经从一家专门生产廉价杂牌产品的厂商成长为业内响当当的主导创新型企业。
2. Over the past few years, the company has been shifting from its roots as a hardware and on-premise software vendor, toward a future as a cloud and services purveyor.
   过去几年，这家公司一直在努力从硬件和内部部署软件提供商转型成云计算和服务供应商。
3. When jawbone, the San Francisco-based purveyor of wireless devices, originally launched its head-turning, movement-sensing wristband in 2011, the company found itself in the middle of a firestorm.
   2011年，当位于旧金山的无线设备生产商Jawbone公司推出令人惊艳的、能感知动作的腕带后，该公司立即陷入了一场舆论风暴。
4. The economy must be bad when even Starbucks, purveyor of$ 4 lattes, introduces its first value menu.
   连一杯拿铁卖4美元的星巴克都推出了超值菜单，经济不景气程度可想而知。
5. Twitter is part of many people's lives. It's an instant purveyor of news and opinion for millions all around the world. But is it actually a profitable business?
   Twitter是很多人生活的一部分，它能瞬时将消息和观点传递给全球上百万用户，但是Twitter真的赚钱么？
6. The American negotiators role becomes that of an impersonal purveyor of information and cash.
   美国谈判者的角色变成了一个没有个人感情的信息及现金的供应者。
7. In 1942 she achieved her goal of becoming the chocolate purveyor to the royal family, an honor that was bestowed on the brand three more times, most recently in 2013.
   1942年，她实现了自己的目标，成为比利时王室的御用巧克力供应商。该品牌享有这一殊荣已有三次，最近的一次是2013年。
8. We blamed the purveyor of all germs, our kindergartner.
   我们认为我们上幼儿园的孩子是各种病菌的传播者。
9. Speaking of the early years of Droog and the work that set so many tongues wagging, the avant-garde design purveyor Murray Moss made a distinction: It wasn't clever, it was smart, he said.
   在谈到楚格设计的早期阶段，和那些引发热议的作品时，前卫设计师穆雷·莫斯（MurrayMoss）做出了如下区分：那不是聪明，而是明智。他说。
10. Once these organizations certify compliance by an applicable product or service, they permit the purveyor to affix a certification mark.
    一旦这些机构认证了一种适用产品或服务，它们就允许承办商在商品或服务上附上认证标志。
11. Google has been experimenting with Internet-connected eye glasses, and in January it spent$ 3.2 billion to acquire Nest Labs, the leading purveyor of smart thermostats and smoke detectors.
    谷歌正在测试联网眼镜。今年1月，这家公司以32亿美元收购了智能恒温控制器和烟雾探测器的领先制造商NestLabs。
12. Starbucks, the omni-present purveyor of lattes and espressos was probably most responsible for raising the bar on what constitutes good coffee.
    应该说，是星巴克提高了“好咖啡”的门槛，星巴克在北美可谓无处不在，而快餐店提供的咖啡只能算是品质一般的咖啡了。
13. Now I own Patisserie Valerie, a classic purveyor and a part of London's heritage.
    现在我拥有PatisserieValerie，它是一家一流的食品店，也是伦敦的一项遗产。
14. "Moreover, since the death of Xue pan's father, all the managers and assistants in the purveyor's offices of different provinces had taken advantage of his youth and inexperience to start swindling"
    “自薛蟠父亲死后，各省中所有的买卖承局，总管，伙计人等，见薛蟠年轻不谙世事，便趁时拐骗起来”
15. Teaching purpose: To comprehensively understand the role function and consciousness composition of a news purveyor.
    课后作业：结合实际，阐述你对新闻传播者的角色功能的理解。
16. Mozart was, after all, not a mere purveyor of music but one of the supreme dramatic geniuses of all time.
    莫扎特毕竟不仅是作曲家，而且是空前的最大戏剧天才之一。
17. How on earth did Monsanto come to be the world's largest purveyor of seeds?
    好了，我们把话说回来，孟山都做的，是种子的生意。
18. Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.
    言语是最不可靠的传递真理的方式。
19. Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research and development, and strategic planning, said the project is part of Detroit-based GM's effort to remake itself as a purveyor of fuel-efficient vehicles.
    拉里伯恩斯，通用汽车公司的副总裁研究和开发，战略规划，称该项目是总部设在底特律的通用汽车公司的努力，重塑自我的供应者燃料效率的汽车。
20. After analyzing the goals and principals of risk disposal of government and purveyor, it is confirmed that the model is composed of two parts, one is basic pricing model, and the other is the adjustments to basic price.
    根据对政府和承办方追求目标和风险处理原则的分析，确定了本模型分成两个部分：基础价格模型和价格调整方法。
21. Architecture frames the story film tells: indeed, it is far more importance to film than to that other great purveyor of narrative, the novel.
    建筑为电影故事情节的展开提供了框架和场所：的确，它对于电影的重要性远远超过了对于其他叙述方式的载体&小说。

noun

1. someone who supplies provisions (especially food)