Dignitary
['dɪgnɪt(ə)rɪ] or ['dɪɡnɪtɛri]
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
杰弗里整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Now, the supervising dignitary, the Archbishop of Greenwich, knew this as well as if he had performed the nuptial ceremony. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Imagine a poor Frenchman ignorantly intruding upon a public rostrum sacred to some six-penny dignitary in America. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Turkish dignitary yawns and expresses signs of weariness and idleness. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Among the latter was the Prior of Jorvaulx, in the most gallant trim which a dignitary of the church could venture to exhibit. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- At the end were the signatures of the high dignitaries who had signed it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- This in itself was not a bad thing for the lower clergy in France, who were often scandalously underpaid in comparison with the richer dignitaries. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A number of great dignitaries of the Empire, in undress unit forms, came with them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It had to assume a severely technical form because the dignitaries of the church, ignorant and intolerant, were on the watch for heresy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
編輯:娜塔莎