Patriarch
['peɪtrɪɑːk] or ['petrɪɑrk]
解释:
(noun.) a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself.
(noun.) any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race.
(noun.) the male head of family or tribe.
(noun.) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem).
校对:马特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.
(n.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch.
(n.) A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.
伊桑录入
解释:
n. one who governs his family by paternal right: (B.) one of the early heads of families from Adam downwards to Abraham Jacob and his sons: in Eastern churches a dignitary superior to an archbishop.—adjs. Patriarch′al Patriarch′ic belonging or subject to a patriarch: like a patriarch: of the nature of a patriarch.—ns. Pā′triarchalism the condition of tribal government by a patriarch; Pā′triarchate the office or jurisdiction of a patriarch or church dignitary: the residence of a patriarch; Pā′triarchism government by a patriarch; Pā′triarchy a community of related families under the authority of a patriarch.
编辑:厄休拉
例句:
- In Washington he has made his home, and there scientists of all lands call to pay their respects to the patriarch of American inventors. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- It was what the old dying patriarch demanded of his son Esau, promising in requital the blessing of his last breath. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Everybody else within the bills of mortality was hot; but the Patriarch was perfectly cool. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- When he cast off the Patriarch at night, it was only to take an anonymous craft in tow, and labour away afresh in other waters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- But he's a perfect Patriarch; and it would do a man good to serve him on such terms--on any terms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The Patriarch, meanwhile, came inanely beaming towards the counting-house in the wake of Pancks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- This was in the days of the patriarch Abraham. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- A reverent old patriarch man as you be--seventy if a day--to go hornpiping like that by yourself! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- In the Southern States, culture among the negroes is openly deplored, and I do not blame any patriarch for dreading the education of women. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Uncle Tom was a sort of patriarch in religious matters, in the neighborhood. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- What's your name, my patriarch? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The room was soon filled with a motley assemblage, from the old gray-headed patriarch of eighty, to the young girl and lad of fifteen. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The Patriarch was fast asleep, with his philanthropic mouth open under a yellow pocket-handkerchief in the dining-room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I am going,' said the Patriarch, finishing his mixture, and rising with an amiable air, 'to take a little stroll, a little stroll. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- He, the father, the Patriarch, was forced to deny the means of life to his sons, his people. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I had rasher sail with a whole brigade of patriarchs than suffer so. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Is any man insane enough to imagine that this picnic of patriarchs sang, made love, danced, laughed, told anecdotes, dealt in ungodly levity? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- And now, after all, the last of the Patriarchs coolly walked into the parlour, saying in effect, 'Be good enough to throw it down and dance upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broadcloth, and yet his clothes looked patriarchal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- He has his favourite box, he bespeaks all the papers, he is down upon bald patriarchs, who keep them more than ten minutes afterwards. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The early Semitic gods, on the other hand, were thought of as tribal patriarchs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- You're one of the Patriarchs; you're a shaky old card; and you can't be in love with this Lizzie? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Here, you feel all the time just as if you were living about the year 1200 before Christ--or back to the patriarchs--or forward to the New Era. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Various old ladies in the neighbourhood spoke of him as The Last of the Patriarchs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
手打:温迪