Patronage
[ˈpeɪtrənɪdʒ] or ['pætrənɪdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
(verb.) support by being a patron of.
編輯:利拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.
(n.) Business custom.
(n.) Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
(n.) The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.
(n.) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
(v. t.) To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
欧内斯特整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Favor, countenance, support, assistance, influence, friendship, aid.[2]. Custom, good-will (of an established place of business).
厄纳校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A young man really well deserves constant support and patronage,' looking at the Doctor, 'who makes such sacrifices. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- From the first the patronage even of Ptolemy I set a limit to political discussion. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Truly, there she was, immediately in front of us, curtsying, and smiling, and saying with her yesterday's air of patronage, The wards in Jarndyce! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- There was an insult in Gudrun's protective patronage that was really too hurting. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The Oliver has made many friends for itself by its fine alignment and visible writing, and shares with the other standard machines a considerable patronage. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I'm hanged if I'll stand your airs of superiority and infernal pity and patronage. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Patronage is a fine thing! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It was nothing to her that the kindness took the form of tolerant patronage; she was used to that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I might have thanked Mrs. Bute for her patronage, and Mr. Pitt for his insufferable condescension. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He interested himself for me strongly in that instance, as he did in many others afterward, continuing his patronage till his death. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He had hung out his sign as Painter of Miniatures at the corner of Second and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia, under the friendly patronage of Benjamin Franklin. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- And even could it have been found, how were the ladies on whose approval she depended to be induced to give her their patronage? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It seems very unfitting that I should have this patronage, yet I felt that I ought not to let it be used by some one else instead of me. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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