Provincial
[prə'vɪnʃ(ə)l] or [prə'vɪnʃl]
解释:
(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; 'the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials'.
(adj.) characteristic of the provinces or their people; 'deeply provincial and conformist'; 'in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial'; 'narrow provincial attitudes' .
(adj.) of or associated with a province; 'provincial government' .
达伦编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
(a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
(n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
(n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
录入:罗莎莉
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Of a province, of provinces.[2]. Rude, unpolished, unrefined, rustic, countrified.
安妮编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Appendant, annexed, outlying, rural, countrified, rustic, bucolic
ANT:Central, metropolitan, modish, fashionable, courtly
编辑:维尔玛
解释:
adj. pertaining to Provence or Provené°l.—Provincial rose the cabbage-rose—from Provins-rose Provins in Seine-et-Marne being famous for its roses: (Shak.) a rosette formerly worn on the shoe.
以利沙整理
例句:
- Worse quarters than Defarge's wine-shop, could easily have been found in Paris for a provincial slave of that degree. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Mentally he was in a provincial future, that is, he was in many points abreast with the central town thinkers of his date. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The customary expedient of provincial girls and men in such circumstances is churchgoing. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Franklin's great-grandfather had been imprisoned for writing sa tirical verses about some provincial magnate. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Provincial, said the spy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- There were present deputies from all the best provincial choral societies; genuine, barrel-shaped, native Labassecouriens. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Everywhere the provincial rulers set up for themselves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun's perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness of manner, said of her: 'She is a smart woman. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Many of his officials, particularly his provincial officials, had great subordinate establishments, and were constantly tending to become independent. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There are few things better worth the pains in a provincial town like this, said Lydgate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He became afterward a merchant of great note, and one of our provincial judges. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- If Menelaus had been ruler of Lutetia, Helen would never have been persuaded to leave it for a dull provincial town like Troy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Should it meet in Paris or in some provincial city? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The phraseology betrays the particular provincial tradition within which the author is writing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
校对:雷明顿