Elizabethan
[i,lizə'bi:θən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I; 'William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan'.
(adj.) of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen; 'Elizabethan music' .
贝琪校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
(n.) One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
校對:洛丽
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603) or her time—of dress manners literature &c.—n. a poet or dramatist of that age.—Elizabethan architecture a name applied to the mixed style which sprang up on the decline of Gothic marked by Tudor bow-windows and turrets decorated with classic cornices and pilasters long galleries enormous square windows large apartments plaster ceilings wrought into compartments &c.
德布斯錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- We were ushered through the magnificent Elizabethan doorway and into his Grace's study. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Your Elizabethan ancestor was not healthy-minded, said Caliphronas coolly; if he had been he would never have written such silly verses. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- You know the old Elizabethan bedrooms? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Do look at this bridegroom coming out of church: did you ever see such a 'sugared invention'--as the Elizabethans used to say? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
整理:威尔伯