Patron
['peɪtr(ə)n] or ['petrən]
解释:
(noun.) a regular customer.
(noun.) someone who supports or champions something.
(noun.) the proprietor of an inn.
录入:厄普顿--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
(n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
(n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.
(n.) An advocate or pleader.
(n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
(n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
(n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
(n.) See Padrone, 2.
(v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.
(a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.
手打:特伦斯
同义词及近义词：
n. Defender, advocate, protector, supporter, favorer, guardian, good genius, tutelary saint.
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解释:
n. a protector: one who countenances or encourages: one who has the right to appoint to any office esp. to a living in the church: a guardian saint:—fem. Pā′troness.—v.t. to treat as a patron.—n. Pā′tronage the support given by a patron: guardianship of saints: the right of bestowing offices privileges or church benefices.—v.t. (Shak.) to support.—adj. Pā′tronal.—n. Pātronisā′tion.—v.t. Pā′tronīse to act as a patron toward: to give countenance or encouragement to: to assume the air of a patron towards.—n. Pā′tronīser.—adj. Pā′tronīsing.—adv. Pā′tronīsingly.—adj. Pā′tronless.
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例句:
- He was acutely conscious that this was an enterprise too great for any one man, and he used his utmos t endeavors to induce James I to become the patron of the plan. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- On either side are represented as hanging small pictures of Tycho's patron, Frederick II of Denmark (d. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- We had to walk two miles to Brocklebridge Church, where our patron officiated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- And this, sir,' Silas would say to his patron, sadly nodding his head and musing, 'was once Our House! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- A charter of incorporation was granted in July, 1662; and, later, Charles II proclaimed himself founder and patron of the Royal Society for the advancement of natural science. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I told them what a fine fellow Steerforth was, and what a patron of mine, and Peggotty said she would walk a score of miles to see him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- She stopped in her wild crying, a little detached herself from Emma Gordon, and turned her face full upon her patron. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- I am an obscure, unnoticed man, without patron or friend to help me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Bitzer, still holding the paralysed culprit by the collar, stood in the Ring, blinking at his old patron through the darkness of the twilight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Waldemar Fitzurse, who probably thought his patron was not taking the readiest road to popularity, shrugged up his shoulders and was silent. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- His poor clerk and sexton delighted in him; the noble patron of his living esteemed him highly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The gentleman was an enthusiastic collector of Oriental antiquities, and had been for many years a liberal patron of the establishment in Lambeth. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I will answer for my patron, said the Priest, joyously. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- After some cogitation, accompanied with an intent look at his patron, Mr. Cruncher conceived the luminous idea of replying, Agicultooral character. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Mr. Luker called a cab, and drove off instantly to his liberal patron. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The shops were opening and the cafes filling with early morning patrons. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Two or three of the houses were occupied by the families of members of the staff; in the others boarders were taken, the laboratory, of course, furnishing all the patrons. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- A bell summoned the teachers, patrons, and patronesses to the schoolroom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- And as to the Patrons and Patronesses themselves, I wonder they're not ashamed of themselves. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The Popes have long been the patrons and preservers of art, just as our new, practical Republic is the encourager and upholder of mechanics. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- These are the patrons and teachers, who are to swell the procession. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- And with this, and a profound bow to his patrons, the Manager retires, and the curtain rises. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I am told that the old masters had to do these shameful things for bread, the princes and potentates being the only patrons of art. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Better known to the patrons of our excursion boats and the visitors to our splendid battleships, are the electric search lights. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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