Courtier
['kɔːtɪə] or ['kɔrtɪɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
(n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
編輯:塞格雷
例句/造句/用法:
- He has generally been something of a courtier and time server. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I don't know what Sir Thomas may think of such matters; he may be too much of the courtier and fine gentleman to like his daughter the less. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Even you are a courtier, or think it necessary to become one to me! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- My father is Miss Havisham's cousin; not that that implies familiar intercourse between them, for he is a bad courtier and will not propitiate her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Here he must have made some sort of signal for immediately the door opened and another richly trapped courtier emerged. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The ruler was engaged in conversation with his son, Sab Than, and several courtiers of his household, and did not perceive my entrance. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- If that is true of Plato with his ample vision how much truer is it of the theories of the littler men--politicians, courtiers and propagandists who make up the academy of politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Many of the leading princes and courtiers of the queen's party fled abroad. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The mass of Cook's Courtiers are in their usual state of mind, no better and no worse; but Mr. Snagsby is changed, and his little woman knows it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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