Elder
['eldə] or ['ɛldɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a person who is older than you are.
(noun.) any of various church officers.
(noun.) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit.
(adj.) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; 'Bill Adams, Sr.' .
赫克托整理--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Older; more aged, or existing longer.
(a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc.
(a.) One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
(a.) An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
(a.) A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.
(a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.
(n.) A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.
手打:特雷弗
同义词及近义词：
a. Older, senior.
n. Senior, aged person.
杜安整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Senior, father
ANT:Junior, son
整理:温弗雷德
解释:
adj. older: having lived a longer time: prior in origin.—n. one who is older: an ancestor: one advanced to office on account of age: one of a class of office-bearers in the Presbyterian Church—equivalent to the presbyters of the New Testament.—n. Eld′erliness.—adj. Eld′erly somewhat old: bordering on old age.—n. Eld′ership state of being older: the office of an elder.—adj. Eld′est oldest.
n. a genus of plants consisting chiefly of shrubs and trees with pinnate leaves small flowers (of which the corolla is wheel-shaped and five-cleft) and three-seeded berries—the Common Elder is the Scotch Bourtree.—ns. Eld′er-berr′y the acidulous purple-black drupaceous fruit of the elder; Eld′er-gun a popgun made of elder-wood by extracting the pith; Eld′er-wine a pleasant wine made from elder-berries.—Elder-flower water distilled water with an agreeable odour made from the flowers.
编辑:罗德里克
例句:
- He gets worse instead of better, I think,' said the elder lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- And besides, look at elder-flowers and bluebells--they are a sign that pure creation takes place--even the butterfly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Really, girls, you are both to be blamed, said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- My dear George, returns the elder, concentrating his strong steady brow upon him and smiling confidently, leave that to me, and let me try. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- And they both groaned at the atrocious conduct of the elder Mr. Weller. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Mr. Sam Wynne coming up with great haste, to insist on the elder girls joining in the game as well as the younger ones, Caroline was again left alone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It was the elder who replied, 'Since about this hour last night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- She loved him as a kind elder brother; a relation to guide, protect, and instruct her, without the too frequent tyranny of parental authority. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Willoughby took his usual place between the two elder Miss Dashwoods. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Queer, Sammy, queer,' replied the elder Mr. Weller, with impressive gravity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The elder De Candolle has made nearly similar observations on the general nature of the affinities of distinct families of plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Mr Pancks was then hospitably pressed into Happy Cottage, where he encountered the elder Master Plornish just come home from school. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- It was, indeed, a pathetic sight to see a father venerate his son as the elder Edison did. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The young would imitate their elders in this task. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was, therefore, a different thing in its origins from the nobility of the early Aryans, which was a republican nobility of elders and leading men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- These were crimes his elders fretted over among themselves and proposed to punish when the opportunity should offer. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- A young man for whom two such elders had devoted themselves would indeed be culpable if he threw himself away and made their sacrifices vain. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I had half a mind to bend over the elders' shoulders, and answer their goodness with the thanks of my eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Ned, Frank, and the little girls joined in this, and while it went on, the three elders sat apart, talking. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- For the first few days, I had no choice but to give way to my elders and betters; the patient steadily sinking all the time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Both elders pay you homage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- They were sent up by the minor gentry, freeholders and village elders of their districts as early as 1254, two knights from each shire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The young men in the towns began to be Europeanized to the great dismay of their elders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Veneering and other elders of tribes commended this way out of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Let 'em wait, as their elders have done before 'em. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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