Bourbon
['bɜːb(ə)n;'bʊə-] or ['bɝbən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels.
(noun.) a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily.
(noun.) a member of the European royal family that ruled France.
(noun.) a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South).
錄入:弗农--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
(n.) A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But the beneficiaries of privilege, the Bourbon reactionaries, the short-sighted ultra-conservatives, turned down Turgot; and then found that instead of him they had obtained Robespierre. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- His progress to Paris was a triumphal procession; he walked on white Bourbon cockades. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The German troops in Milan, under the Constable of Bourbon, being unpaid, forced rather than followed their commander into a raid upon Rome. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was he that ruined the Bourbons and Mr. John Sedley. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Many were very willing to come back on such terms, and let Bourbons be bygones. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The allies, after the fashion of Peace Congresses, frittered away precious time in more and more rapacious disputes; the Bourbons returned to France. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The allies would not hear of any further experiments in republicanism; it was the Bourbons or Napoleon. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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