Baronet
['bær(ə)nɪt] or ['bærənət]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight; 'since he was a baronet he had to be addressed as Sir Henry Jones, Bart.'.
編輯:特伦斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
錄入:纳塔莉亚
解釋/意思:
n. the lowest hereditary title in the United Kingdom (of England—now of Great Britain—since 1611; of Scotland—or of Nova Scotia—since 1625; of Ireland since 1619).—ns. Bar′onetage the whole body of baronets: a list of such; Bar′onetcy.—adj. Baronet′ical.
手打:萨曼莎
例句/造句/用法:
- It was over Sir Pitt Crawley's house; but it did not indicate the worthy baronet's demise. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, how did my calculations come out under these circumstances? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You remain a Baronet--you consent to be a mere country gentleman, she said to him, while he had been her guest in London. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- They respected a possible baronet in the boy, between whom and the title there was only the little sickly pale Pitt Binkie. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Mr. Crawley's brother, the baronet, with whom we are not, alas! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Only a baronet; that is all. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Now, you wanted to see Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- All idea of a Peerage was out of the question, the Baronet's two seats in Parliament being lost. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Ees, said the Baronet, I did. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The body of the unfortunate baronet had been removed, and all else remained as we had seen it in the morning. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- But he himself was in a little room adjoining, at work with his turning apparatus, and he called to the baronet to join him there. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- So it is, Joe, cried the Baronet, approvingly; and I'd like to see the man can do me. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Again there was a loud laugh, the most startling of which was the Baronet's, which rattled out like a clatter of falling stones. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She sneaked away when her eyes met those of Wenham, and indeed never succeeded in her designs upon the Baronet. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted man, far more popular in his county than the Baronet his brother. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- There were hundreds of baronets in England, and dozens of landowners in Hampshire. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Sir Pitt might have said he and his family, to be sure; but rich baronets do not need to be careful about grammar, as poor governesses must be. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Lady Jane was instructed to be friendly with the Fuddlestones, and the Wapshots, and the other famous baronets, their neighbours. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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