Aristocracy
[,ærɪ'stɒkrəsɪ] or [,ærɪ'stɑkrəsi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Government by the best citizens.
(n.) A ruling body composed of the best citizens.
(n.) A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.
(n.) The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.
伊丽莎白手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Government of nobles or a privileged order.[2]. Nobility, noblesse, gentry, peerage, body of nobles, the quality, persons of rank.[3]. [Colloquial.] Upper classes, UPPER-TEN, UPPER-CRUST, upper ten thousand.
安迪編輯
解釋/意思:
n. government by the men of best birth or condition: political power of a privileged order: the nobility or chief persons of a state: the upper classes generally also the persons noted for superiority in any quality taken collectively—also Aristarch′y (rare).—n. Aristocrat (ar′is-to-krat or ar-is′-) one who belongs to or favours an aristocracy: a haughty person.—adjs. Aristocrat′ic -al belonging to aristocracy: gentlemanly stylish.—adv. Aristocrat′ically.—n. Aristocrat′ism.
安塞姆校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts—guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
芭芭拉校對
例句/造句/用法:
- He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Don't tell me, Mrs. Archer would say to her children, all this modern newspaper rubbish about a New York aristocracy. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Hulker and Bullock were a high family of the City aristocracy, and connected with the nobs at the West End. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Times are altered at Ostend now; of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Look at the aristocracy of Villette--you would not like them, sir? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Him who answers to aristocracy, and whom we rightly call just and good, we have already described. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- No oppressive aristocracy has ever prevailed in the colonies. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Billiards was the game of the aristocracy and the Puritan hated not only the aristocrat, but the style and color of his clothes, the cut of his hair, as well as the games he played. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- His protectorate was to be distinguished by every kind of innovation on the aristocracy. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Greek education was almost purely _viva-voce_ education; it could reach therefore only to a limited aristocracy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The aristocracy held out the longest. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- First, then, I said, let us enquire how timocracy (the government of honour) arises out of aristocracy (the government of the best). 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He favors a true aristocracy as the best means of produ cing a race of supermen. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- She is such a very nice girl--no airs, no pretensions, though on a level with the firSt. I don't mean with the titled aristocracy. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The first group was the logical extension of the old-world aristocracy. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Naturally enough under the circumstances the nomadic peoples were always supplying the civilizations with fresh rulers and new aristocracies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Your deity is the deity of foreign aristocracies; analyze the blue blood of Spain! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And in the ancient Greek aristocracies, merit was certainly recognized as one of the elements on which government was based. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Well, he said, have you never heard that forms of government differ; there are tyrannies, and there are democracies, and there are aristocracies? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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