Patronage
[ˈpeɪtrənɪdʒ] or ['pætrənɪdʒ]
解释:
(noun.) (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
(verb.) support by being a patron of.
编辑:利拉--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.
(n.) Business custom.
(n.) Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
(n.) The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.
(n.) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
(v. t.) To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
欧内斯特整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Favor, countenance, support, assistance, influence, friendship, aid.[2]. Custom, good-will (of an established place of business).
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例句:
- Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- A young man really well deserves constant support and patronage,' looking at the Doctor, 'who makes such sacrifices. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- From the first the patronage even of Ptolemy I set a limit to political discussion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Truly, there she was, immediately in front of us, curtsying, and smiling, and saying with her yesterday's air of patronage, The wards in Jarndyce! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- There was an insult in Gudrun's protective patronage that was really too hurting. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The Oliver has made many friends for itself by its fine alignment and visible writing, and shares with the other standard machines a considerable patronage. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- I'm hanged if I'll stand your airs of superiority and infernal pity and patronage. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Patronage is a fine thing! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- It was nothing to her that the kindness took the form of tolerant patronage; she was used to that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I might have thanked Mrs. Bute for her patronage, and Mr. Pitt for his insufferable condescension. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- He interested himself for me strongly in that instance, as he did in many others afterward, continuing his patronage till his death. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- He had hung out his sign as Painter of Miniatures at the corner of Second and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia, under the friendly patronage of Benjamin Franklin. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- And even could it have been found, how were the ladies on whose approval she depended to be induced to give her their patronage? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It seems very unfitting that I should have this patronage, yet I felt that I ought not to let it be used by some one else instead of me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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