Prerogative
[prɪ'rɒgətɪv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); 'suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males'.
赫尔曼手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.
(n.) Precedence; preeminence; first rank.
盖尔校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Privilege, immunity, right, liberty, franchise, advantage.
編輯:罗比
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Eight, privilege, immunity
ANT:Disqualification, disfranchisement
厄玛編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a peculiar privilege shared by no other: a right arising out of one's rank position or nature.—adj. arising out of or held by prerogative.—v.t. to endow with a prerogative.—adj. Prerog′atived (Shak.) having a prerogative or exclusive privilege.—adv. Prerog′atively by prerogative or exclusive privilege.—Prerogative court formerly a court having jurisdiction over testamentary matters.—Royal prerogative the rights which a sovereign has by right of office which are different in different countries.
編輯:罗德里克
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. A sovereign's right to do wrong.
约西亚整理
例句/造句/用法:
- And what's the prerogative of a woman, in the name of Goodness? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- If an animal die on the plain the polyborus has prerogative of feeding first, and is followed by the turkey buzzard and the gallinazo. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Accordingly, he filled those places with such as prostituted their professions to his notions of prerogative. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- To formulate new truths in the world of ideas is the prerogative o f minds gifted with exceptional reason. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The king behaved with a clumsy stupidity, and with that disregard for others which is the prerogative of kings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He considered it the principle of a gentleman to take things as he found them; and he had no doubt the Prerogative Office would last our time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Under the Prerogative Office, the country had been glorious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman--her legitimate appanage and heritage! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Insert the wedge into the Prerogative Office, and the country would cease to be glorious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Hence the truly human end is the fullest possible of this distinctive human prerogative. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- These women at least shall continue to respect the prerogative. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- We sometimes talk as if original research were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The prerogative of a man is to command. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- St Dunstan knew, as well as any one, the prerogatives of a jovial friar. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The fathers themselves would have been the first to declare that their prerogatives were not irrevocable. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I believe duelling is one of his Majesty's most undoubted prerogatives, Mr. Jinks? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
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