Prerogative
[prɪ'rɒgətɪv]
解释:
(noun.) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); 'suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males'.
赫尔曼手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.
(n.) Precedence; preeminence; first rank.
盖尔校对
同义词及近义词:
n. Privilege, immunity, right, liberty, franchise, advantage.
编辑:罗比
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Eight, privilege, immunity
ANT:Disqualification, disfranchisement
厄玛编辑
解释:
n. a peculiar privilege shared by no other: a right arising out of one's rank position or nature.—adj. arising out of or held by prerogative.—v.t. to endow with a prerogative.—adj. Prerog′atived (Shak.) having a prerogative or exclusive privilege.—adv. Prerog′atively by prerogative or exclusive privilege.—Prerogative court formerly a court having jurisdiction over testamentary matters.—Royal prerogative the rights which a sovereign has by right of office which are different in different countries.
编辑:罗德里克
娱乐性解释:
n. A sovereign's right to do wrong.
约西亚整理
例句:
- And what's the prerogative of a woman, in the name of Goodness? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- If an animal die on the plain the polyborus has prerogative of feeding first, and is followed by the turkey buzzard and the gallinazo. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Accordingly, he filled those places with such as prostituted their professions to his notions of prerogative. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- To formulate new truths in the world of ideas is the prerogative o f minds gifted with exceptional reason. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The king behaved with a clumsy stupidity, and with that disregard for others which is the prerogative of kings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He considered it the principle of a gentleman to take things as he found them; and he had no doubt the Prerogative Office would last our time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Under the Prerogative Office, the country had been glorious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman--her legitimate appanage and heritage! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Insert the wedge into the Prerogative Office, and the country would cease to be glorious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Hence the truly human end is the fullest possible of this distinctive human prerogative. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- These women at least shall continue to respect the prerogative. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- We sometimes talk as if original research were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The prerogative of a man is to command. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- St Dunstan knew, as well as any one, the prerogatives of a jovial friar. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The fathers themselves would have been the first to declare that their prerogatives were not irrevocable. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I believe duelling is one of his Majesty's most undoubted prerogatives, Mr. Jinks? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
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