Marchioness
[,mɑːʃə'nes;'mɑːʃ(ə)nɪs] or [,mɑrʃə'nɛs]
解释:
(noun.) a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess.
(noun.) the wife or widow of a marquis.
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解释:
(n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
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例句:
- He will be marquis some day, and there is no denying that she would make a good marchioness: she looks handsomer than ever in her mourning. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Mother's not here, or the Marchioness--or anybody but me. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The Marchioness shook her head reprovingly. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Between the Marchioness and the natural and tender regard of mother for children, there was that cruel barrier placed of difference of faith. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Did you see the Marchioness o' Granby, Sammy? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I think she didn't want the Marchioness to know. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- I am the Marchioness Manson. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- He heard a murmur of skirts beside him, and the Marchioness Manson fluttered out of the drawing-room window. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The Marchioness Manson shook her head softly. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- He advanced toward the Marchioness and Newland with his usual half-sneering smile. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- But, good heavens, to forgive is one thing; to go back into that hell-- Ah, yes, the Marchioness acquiesced. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Dr. Carver inclined his leonine head, and the Marchioness continued: Ah, New York--New York--how little the life of the spirit has reached it! 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Ah, the Marchioness murmured, without visible resentment. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- And Harriette Wilson had refused to become Marchioness of Worcester, to be waited for in a corner by a vile sugar-baker! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The Marchioness replied by one of her queer foreign jerks, and a Que voulez-vous? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
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