Regent
['riːdʒ(ə)nt] or ['ridʒənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch.
(noun.) members of a governing board.
(adj.) acting or functioning as a regent or ruler; 'prince-regent' .
伯尼編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Ruling; governing; regnant.
(a.) Exercising vicarious authority.
(a.) One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.
(a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
(a.) One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
(a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.
杰米整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Governor, ruler, director.
手打:肖恩
解釋/意思:
adj. invested with interim or vicarious sovereign authority.—n. one invested with interim authority: one who rules for the sovereign: a college professor as formerly in Scotland and elsewhere: a master or doctor who takes part in the regular duties of instruction and government in some universities.—ns. Rē′gent-bird an Australian bird related to the bower-birds; Rē′gentess; Rē′gentship office of a regent: deputed authority.
錄入:莱尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Shopping in Regent Street is perfectly splendid. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- On the opposite and lighter side of the way, a short distance below me, a policeman was strolling along in the direction of the Regent's Park. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He talks to Pa of an evening about the Prince Regent, and I never saw Pa so interested. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He crossed the road and walked towards the western boundary of the Regent's Park. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his foot. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Five minutes later we were in the street, walking towards Regent's Circus. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He hurried at his top speed down Baker Street and along Oxford Street, until we had almost reached Regent Circus. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Yes, I replied, that is the way: it leads to St. John's Wood and the Regent's Park. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was afterwards adopted, with some variations, by the Duke of Orleans, at that time regent of France. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Old Mr. Turveydrop adored the Prince Regent on account of his deportment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He was her Europe: her emperor: her allied monarchs and august prince regent. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Pray, Miss Sharp, are you waiting for the Prince Regent's divorce, that you don't think our family good enough for you? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Caroline chid her when she abused Lord Wellington; but she listened delighted to a subsequent tirade against the Prince Regent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Old Mr. Turveydrop had him christened Prince in remembrance of the Prince Regent. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Even the Regent himself once said he would travel a hundred miles to have the pleasure of seeing her dance. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Abo ut three years after Langley's death the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution established the Langley Medal for investigations in aerodromics in its application to aviation. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
錄入:劳伦斯