Patriarchal
[peɪtrɪ'ɑːk(ə)l] or [,petrɪ'ɑrkl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line .
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank .
校對:弗恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.
(a.) Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
(a.) Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The joint family system, he said, has descended to us from time immemorial, the Aryan patriarchal system of old still holding sway in India. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Except for quite personal possessions, there was still an air of patriarchal communism about the tribe. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Israelites held them sacred in the old patriarchal times, and these other Arabs, their lineal descendants, do so likewise. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- At five minutes before eight her hand was on the Patriarchal knocker, which was quite as high as she could reach. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- They were the homes of small patriarchal groups. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broadcloth, and yet his clothes looked patriarchal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- That wonder was in its turn swallowed up on the greater wonder with which he saw them stop at the Patriarchal door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- They are presented as patriarchal Bedouin chiefs, living the life of nomadic shepherds in the country between Babylonia and Egypt. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Semite also was more polygamous than the Aryan, his women less self-assertive,[135] and the tendency of his government more patriarchal. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Caliph had become a luxurious Emperor or King of Kings; the administration had changed from a patriarchal system to a bureaucracy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Patriarchal state, always a state of calmness and composure, was so particularly serene that evening as to be provoking. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Early in the morning, Little Dorrit, leaving Maggy in high domestic trust, set off for the Patriarchal tent. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Pseudo-counts, patriarchal knights, islands of fantasy, hintings of dangers. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The patriarchal community of which Justinian is king! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The feminists too have their atavisms: not a few who object to the patriarchal family seem inclined to cure it by going back still more--to the matriarchal. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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