Burgher
['bɜːgə] or ['bɝɡɚ]
解释:
(n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
(n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
整理:彼得
例句:
- Too much learning, says one burgher, shaking his head. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- No gentleman, nor even any burgher, who has stock, will submit to this degradation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Nay, says the third burgher, he will live forever, to bring shame to our town of Saintes. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- At first, the farm of the town was probably let to the burghers, in the same manner as it had been to other farmers, for a term of years only. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The nobles, who despised commerce, and the burghers, who lived by it, were always fighting for the upper hand, and the laboring people sided now with one party, and now with the other. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The wealth of the burghers never failed to provoke their envy and indignation, and they plundered them upon every occasion without mercy or remorse. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The king hated and feared them too; but though, perhaps, he might despise, he had no reason either to hate or fear the burghers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Whether such privileges had before been usually granted, along with the freedom of trade, to particular burghers, as individuals, I know not. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The burghers naturally hated and feared the lords. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Homeward-bound burghers pass me now and then, but these companies are pedestrians, make little noise, and are soon gone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Pupils came--burghers at first--a higher class ere long. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
校对:塔玛拉