Potentate
['pəʊt(ə)nteɪt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Monarch, sovereign, king, emperor, prince.
校對:凯尔西
例句/造句/用法:
- Mr Wegg, she is worthy of being loved by a Potentate! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It is then the interest of the enemies of this potentate to secure and publish this letter, so as to make a breach between his country and ours? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I say 'Mighty potentate, here IS my homage! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The letter--for it was a letter from a foreign potentate--was received six days ago. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Legree, like some potentates we read of in history, governed his plantation by a sort of resolution of forces. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I am told that the old masters had to do these shameful things for bread, the princes and potentates being the only patrons of art. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
校對:苏西