gentry的用法和樣例:
例句
用作名詞 (n.)
- The English gentry is next below the nobility.
英國紳士的地位僅次於貴族。 - The peasants' revolt disturbed the gentry's sweet dreams.
農民在鄉里造反,攪動了紳士們的酣夢。 - In the Eighteenth Century, the clergy, like the nobility and gentry, often rode to hounds.
在18世紀,神職人員跟貴族和上流社會人士一樣,常常騎馬打獵。 - In old society, the gentry lived in luxury.
在舊社會,貴族們生活奢侈。 - She was an old woman who for twenty years had brought the neighbouring gentry into the world.
她是個上了年紀的女人,二十年來,鄰近的許許多多上層社會的紳士們都是由她接生的。
辭彙搭配
經典引文
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We haue raised Seianus from obscure, and almost vnknowne Gentry.
出自: Jonson -
'Tis madness to presume too much upon our birth and Gentry.
出自: Alan Ross