详细释义
Noun:
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the most powerful members of a society
双语例句
- The English gentry is next below the nobility.
英国绅士的地位仅次于贵族。 - The peasants' revolt disturbed the gentry's sweet dreams.
农民在乡里造反,搅动了绅士们的酣梦。 - In the Eighteenth Century, the clergy, like the nobility and gentry, often rode to hounds.
在18世纪,神职人员跟贵族和上流社会人士一样,常常骑马打猎。 - In old society, the gentry lived in luxury.
在旧社会,贵族们生活奢侈。 - She was an old woman who for twenty years had brought the neighbouring gentry into the world.
她是个上了年纪的女人,二十年来,邻近的许许多多上层社会的绅士们都是由她接生的。
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相关词汇
- aristocracy 贵族
- upper class 上流社会
- nobility 贵族
- elite 精英
- ruling class 统治阶级
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