Elder
['eldə] or ['ɛldɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who is older than you are.
(noun.) any of various church officers.
(noun.) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit.
(adj.) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; 'Bill Adams, Sr.' .
赫克托整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Older; more aged, or existing longer.
(a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc.
(a.) One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
(a.) An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
(a.) A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.
(a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.
(n.) A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.
手打:特雷弗
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Older, senior.
n. Senior, aged person.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Senior, father
ANT:Junior, son
整理:温弗雷德
解釋/意思:
adj. older: having lived a longer time: prior in origin.—n. one who is older: an ancestor: one advanced to office on account of age: one of a class of office-bearers in the Presbyterian Church—equivalent to the presbyters of the New Testament.—n. Eld′erliness.—adj. Eld′erly somewhat old: bordering on old age.—n. Eld′ership state of being older: the office of an elder.—adj. Eld′est oldest.
n. a genus of plants consisting chiefly of shrubs and trees with pinnate leaves small flowers (of which the corolla is wheel-shaped and five-cleft) and three-seeded berries—the Common Elder is the Scotch Bourtree.—ns. Eld′er-berr′y the acidulous purple-black drupaceous fruit of the elder; Eld′er-gun a popgun made of elder-wood by extracting the pith; Eld′er-wine a pleasant wine made from elder-berries.—Elder-flower water distilled water with an agreeable odour made from the flowers.
編輯:罗德里克
例句/造句/用法:
- He gets worse instead of better, I think,' said the elder lady. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- And besides, look at elder-flowers and bluebells--they are a sign that pure creation takes place--even the butterfly. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Really, girls, you are both to be blamed, said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- My dear George, returns the elder, concentrating his strong steady brow upon him and smiling confidently, leave that to me, and let me try. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And they both groaned at the atrocious conduct of the elder Mr. Weller. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Mr. Sam Wynne coming up with great haste, to insist on the elder girls joining in the game as well as the younger ones, Caroline was again left alone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was the elder who replied, 'Since about this hour last night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- She loved him as a kind elder brother; a relation to guide, protect, and instruct her, without the too frequent tyranny of parental authority. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Willoughby took his usual place between the two elder Miss Dashwoods. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Queer, Sammy, queer,' replied the elder Mr. Weller, with impressive gravity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The elder De Candolle has made nearly similar observations on the general nature of the affinities of distinct families of plants. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Mr Pancks was then hospitably pressed into Happy Cottage, where he encountered the elder Master Plornish just come home from school. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- It was, indeed, a pathetic sight to see a father venerate his son as the elder Edison did. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The young would imitate their elders in this task. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was, therefore, a different thing in its origins from the nobility of the early Aryans, which was a republican nobility of elders and leading men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These were crimes his elders fretted over among themselves and proposed to punish when the opportunity should offer. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A young man for whom two such elders had devoted themselves would indeed be culpable if he threw himself away and made their sacrifices vain. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I had half a mind to bend over the elders' shoulders, and answer their goodness with the thanks of my eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Ned, Frank, and the little girls joined in this, and while it went on, the three elders sat apart, talking. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- For the first few days, I had no choice but to give way to my elders and betters; the patient steadily sinking all the time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Both elders pay you homage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They were sent up by the minor gentry, freeholders and village elders of their districts as early as 1254, two knights from each shire. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The young men in the towns began to be Europeanized to the great dismay of their elders. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Veneering and other elders of tribes commended this way out of it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Let 'em wait, as their elders have done before 'em. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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