Esquire
[ɪ'skwaɪə;e-] or ['ɛskwaɪə]
解释:
(noun.) a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name.
(noun.) (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood.
校对:南森--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.
(v. t.) To wait on as an esquire or attendant in public; to attend.
整理:谢尔登
同义词及近义词：
n. Squire.
整理:普雷斯利
解释:
n. (orig.) a squire or shield-bearer: an attendant on a knight: a landed proprietor: a title of dignity next below a knight: a title given to younger sons of noblemen &c.: a general title of respect in addressing letters.
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例句:
- Those menials having obeyed the mandate, Edward Dorrit, Esquire, proceeded. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Split the difference,' said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Traddles, Esquire, of the Inner Temple. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Of course,' replied Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Copperfield, Esquire, and he believed it, and gave me the letter, which he said required an answer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Wilfer, and John Rokesmith Esquire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Shirley Keeldar, Esquire, ought to be my style and title. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Nicodemus Boffin, Esquire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Since when was you no pardner of mine, Gaffer Hexam Esquire? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Be kind enough to address it to John Sedley, Esquire, and to seal this billet which I have written to his lady. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Kills himself, in fact,' said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Steerforth, Esquire, debtor, to The Willing Mind”; that's not it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I am an esquire! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It informed me, First, That Frederick Fairlie, Esquire, of Limmeridge House. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- At length all was hushed, and WILKINS MICAWBER, ESQUIRE, presented himself to return thanks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Behind them, but still upon the dais or elevated portion of the hall, stood the esquires of the Order, in white dresses of an inferior quality. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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