Patrician
[pə'trɪʃ(ə)n] or [pə'trɪʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person of refined upbringing and manners.
(adj.) befitting a person of noble origin; 'a patrician nose' .
錄入:劳伦斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.
(n.) Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.
(n.) A person of high birth; a nobleman.
(n.) One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore.
亨利錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Nobleman (of ancient Rome).
a. Noble, senatorial, aristocratic, high-born, not plebeian, well-born.
阿纳托尔校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Noble, senator, aristocratic
ANT:Plebeian, churl
校對:朱莉娅
解釋/意思:
n. a nobleman in ancient Rome being a descendant of one of the fathers or first Roman senators: a nobleman.—adj. pertaining to the ancient senators of Rome or to their descendants: of noble birth.—n. Patric′iate the position or duties of a patrician: the patrician order.
艾丽萨校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Even for that purpose their votes did not have the same value as those of their patrician fellow citizens. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Sir Leicester receives the gout as a troublesome demon, but still a demon of the patrician order. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Were the pride of ancestry, the patrician spirit, the gentle courtesies and refined pursuits, splendid attributes of rank, to be erased among us? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I think it is much better to be really patrician, and to do nothing but just be oneself, like a walking flower. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Although he was of an old patrician family, he came into politics as the brilliant darling of the people. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were victorious at last and divided their conquests equably among their great patrician families. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The most opulent of them owned those splendid patrician houses which we still admire even to-day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The form assumed by the government of Holland was a patrician republic under the headship of the house of Orange. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So there grew up in England a representative assembly, the Commons, beside an episcopal and patrician one, the Lords. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You sympathize with that proud patrician who does not sympathize with his famished fellow-men, and insults them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The administration was evidently primarily a patrician affair. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His attempt, however, serves to show how far the Senate had progressed from its original condition as a purely patrician body. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This was in the old days when the Patricians alone governed Venice--the common herd had no vote and no voice. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This community followed the usual tradition of a division into aristocratic and common citizens, who were called in Rome patricians and plebeians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Many patricians were growing poor and irritated and unscrupulous. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The plebeians were ousted from any share in the conquered lands, which the patricians divided up among themselves. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And finally (3) there were patricians big-minded and far-seeing enough to insist upon the need of reconciliation with the plebeians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Trade was coming to Rome with increasing political power, and many plebeians were growing rich and many patricians becoming relatively poor. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was a nominated one, and in the earlier period it was nominated solely from among the patricians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The mass of the details of this struggle between patricians and plebeians we can afford to ignore in this outline. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For a long time the Roman patricians were clever enough to beat every such potential tyrant by giving in to a certain extent to the plebeians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It abated because, among other influences, the social differences between patricians and plebeians were diminishing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
錄入:莫拉