Nobility
[nə(ʊ)'bɪlɪtɪ] or [no'bɪləti]
解释:
(noun.) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct.
(noun.) a privileged class holding hereditary titles.
(noun.) the state of being of noble birth.
费理斯编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.
(n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.
(n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Grandeur, greatness, dignity, nobleness, elevation, superiority, worthiness, loftiness of character, moral excellence.[2]. Noble birth, patrician dignity, eminence by rank.[3]. Noblesse, aristocracy, peerage, patrician class.
录入:索尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Distinction, dignity, rank, peerage, lordship, loftiness, generosity, rank,aristocracy
ANT:Obscurity, meanness, commonalty, serfdom, paltriness, contemptibleness, plebeianism
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解释:
n. the quality of being noble: high rank: dignity: excellence: greatness of mind or character: antiquity of family: descent from noble ancestors: the persons holding the rank of nobles.—adj. Nobil′iary pertaining to the nobility.—v.t. Nobil′itate to ennoble.—n. Nobilitā′tion.
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娱乐性解释：
To dream of associating with the nobility, denotes that your aspirations are not of the right nature, as you prefer show and pleasures to the higher development of the mind. For a young woman to dream of the nobility, foretells that she will choose a lover for his outward appearance, instead of wisely accepting the man of merit for her protector.
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娱乐性解释：
A gang of foreign brigands having abducent designs on the American Damsel and the American Dollar.
编辑:齐克
例句:
- The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I must do, to live, what others of my countrymen, even with nobility at their backs, may have to do some day--work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- 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.
- Many of their dominions were less both in size and value than the larger estates of the British nobility. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There was something to be done before she left the house: to be done with all the nobility she knew how to put into such gestures. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Early Buddhism was certainly producing noble lives, and it is not only through reason that the latent response to nobility is aroused in our minds. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Sab Than lay dead beside his father, and the corpses of the flower of Zodangan nobility and chivalry covered the floor of the bloody shambles. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Why, what had I to fear, I thought, when there was this nobility in the soul of a labouring man's daughter! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Mix with the young nobility. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Charles II of England was in his pay, and so were most of the Polish nobility, presently to be described. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Shall I bow my head before them, and with servile gesture sell my nobility for life? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Flushed with victory and the sense of freedom fairly won, her people did for a time rise towards nobility. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He had proposed for Miss Swartz, but had been rejected scornfully by the partisans of that lady, who married her to a young sprig of Scotch nobility. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
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