Earl
[ɜːl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.
(n.) The needlefish.
錄入:鲁道夫
解釋/意思:
n. an English nobleman ranking between a marquis and a viscount:—fem. Count′ess.—ns. Earl′dom the dominion or dignity of an earl; Earl′-mar′shal an English officer of state president of the Heralds' College—the Scotch form Earl-marischal.
編輯:露西尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A title of nobility.
手打:维吉尔
例句/造句/用法:
- The Earl had procured a pair of horses somehow, in spite of Mrs. Crawley, and was rolling on the road to Ghent. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Charming man, ma'am, the Earl of Fife! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I have a gentleman for my husband, and an Earl's daughter for my sister, in the very house where I was little better than a servant a few years ago. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The Earl smiled and shook his head. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Was it only ten years since she had wavered in imagination between the English earl and the Italian prince? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I passed but one day in confinement; in the evening I was liberated, as I was told, by the order of the Earl himself. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But I can assure you that the Earl of Dovercourt would fail to appreciate them. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The Earl of Bective was also there. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- A charming man, the Earl of Fife! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Here am I playing second fiddle to Miss Eliza Higgins for the amusement of her most charming man, the Earl of Fife! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- A boon', a boon', quoth Earl' Mar-shal', And fell' on his bend'-ded knee', That what'-so-e'er' the queen' shall say', No harm' there-of' may be'. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The Earl was deeply interested, and encouraged the young American to persevere, but for the time Fulton left the steamboat to work out other problems. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It is to be found in Fairbottom Valley, half way between Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, and is the property of the trustees of the late Earl of Stamford and Warrington. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I am as well bred as the Earl's grand-daughter, for all her fine pedigree; and yet every one passes me by here. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But as to counts, marquises, dukes, earls, and the like, I was not so scrupulous. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
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