Lord
[lɔːd] or [lɔrd]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
(n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
(n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
(n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
(n.) A husband.
(n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
(n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
(n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
(v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
(v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.
(v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.
整理:瓦莱丽
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Master, ruler, governor, sovereign, king.[2]. Noble, nobleman, peer.[3]. Husband.[4]. God, Jehovah.
乔治娜手打
解釋/意思:
n. a master: a superior: a husband: a ruler: the proprietor of a manor: a baron: a peer of the realm: the son of a duke or marquis or the eldest son of an earl: a bishop esp. if a member of parliament: (B.) the Supreme Being Jehovah (when printed in capitals): a name also applied to Christ.—v.t. to raise to the peerage.—v.i. to act the lord: to tyrannise.—ns. Lord′liness; Lord′ling a little lord: a would-be lord—also Lord′ing Lord′kin.—adj. Lord′ly like becoming or pertaining to a lord: dignified: haughty: tyrannical—also adv.—ns. Lordol′atry excessive worship of nobility; Lords′-and-lā′dies a popular name for the common arum (q.v.); Lord's′-day the first day of the week; Lord′ship state or condition of being a lord: the territory belonging to a lord: dominion: authority; Lord's′-sup′per the sacrament of the communion instituted at our Lord's last supper.—Lord-lieutenant of a county (see Lieutenant); Lord-lieutenant Of Ireland a viceroy or deputy of the sovereign to whom the government of Ireland is nominally committed; Lord of misrule (see Misrule); Lords of Session the judges of the Scotch Court of Session; Lords Ordinary the five judges forming the outer house of the Court of Session; Lords spiritual the archbishops and bishops in the House of Lords—opp. to Lords temporal the peers proper.—House of Lords the upper house in the two branches of the British parliament consisting of the lords spiritual and temporal.
編輯:韦德
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. In American society an English tourist above the state of a costermonger as lord 'Aberdasher Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as 'Sir as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. The word Lord ' is sometimes used also as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather flattery than true reverence.
安吉洛手打
例句/造句/用法:
- O, my good Lord! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- And thus young Lord Greystoke took the first step toward the goal which he had set--the finding of other white men like himself. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Once it was so; now is man lord of the creation? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I had said to Compeyson that I'd smash that face of his, and I swore Lord smash mine! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Some short time after my sister Sophia's marriage she received from Lord Deerhurst, half a year of the annuity he had made her. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- No, say my lords the mob, you sha'n't have that. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I should speak of foreign dancers, and the West End of London, and May Fair, and lords and ladies and honourables. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I should rather say her thoughts were far away from here, with lords and ladies she'll never know, and mansions she'll never see again. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Monseigneur in Town Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- After which it embarked upon a long-impending struggle with the persistently imperialist House of Lords. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And in London another Lord Greystoke was speaking to HIS kind in the House of Lords, but none trembled at the sound of his soft voice. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I never can bear to be 'lorded over', so that settled my mind, and I did it. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
校對:塔玛拉