Chivalry
['ʃɪv(ə)lrɪ] or ['ʃɪvəlri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) courtesy towards women.
(noun.) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct.
整理:罗德尼--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
(n.) The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
(n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.
(n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.
(n.) Exploit.
校對:西蒙
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Knighthood, knight-errantry.[2]. Valor, gallantry.
手打:莫林
解釋/意思:
n. the usages and qualifications of chevaliers or knights: bravery and courtesy: the system of knighthood in feudal times.—adjs. Chival′ric Chiv′alrous pertaining to chivalry: bold: gallant.—adv. Chiv′alrously.—n. Chiv′alrousness.
校對:凯特
例句/造句/用法:
- Thus far, Gurth, said he, addressing his attendant, the reputation of English chivalry hath not suffered in my hands. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- They were hardy fellows in the grand old days of chivalry. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Enter Mr. Guppy, who nods to Mr. Snagsby and touches his hat with the chivalry of clerkship to the ladies on the stairs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Muhammad's appeal, for example, was to the traditional chivalry and underlying monotheistic feelings of the intelligent Arabs of his time. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This was no time for fine compunctions, nor for a chivalry that these cruel demons would neither appreciate nor reciprocate. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Nor is it explained by words like chivalry, conscience, social compassion. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I know no right of chivalry, he said, more precious or inalienable than that of each free knight to choose his lady-love by his own judgment. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Sab Than lay dead beside his father, and the corpses of the flower of Zodangan nobility and chivalry covered the floor of the bloody shambles. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It was evident that these self-thought supermen were far inferior to the red men of Barsoom in refinement and in chivalry. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- It is a name of heroism and renown; of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the spirit of chivalry and warm affections. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- But the wager of battle is complete, even according to the fantastic fashions of Norman chivalry--Is it not, Father Aymer? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Those are the flowers of Spanish chivalry. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It was as though she were attempting to read my inmost soul, to judge my character and my standards of chivalry in that long-drawn, searching gaze. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He was made a joke of; his gallantry, his chivalry, were the subject of a jest for a petticoat--for two petticoats: Miss Helstone too was smiling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- There was as little chivalry left among them at last as there is in the honours list knights of England of to-day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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