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A sheriff is a law officer in charge of keeping order in a county or area — a word you'll hear mostly in American movies and news, especially about rural areas or the 'Wild West'. It's a bit different from a regular 'police officer': sheriffs are often elected by the public, and their job covers a whole county rather than just one city or town.
警長（尤指美國郡的地方治安官）
組成It comes from Old English 'scir' (shire, a county) + 'gerefa' (a local official) — literally 'shire-reeve', the official in charge of a shire.
同家族的字
- shirethe old word for a county, forming the first part of this word's history
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Sheriffname
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An English surname originating as an occupation.
sheriffnoun/ˈʃɛɹɪf/
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(High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.
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A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.
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A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in their county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.
sheriffverb/ˈʃɛɹɪf/
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To carry out the duties of a sheriff.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。