gentry的用法和样例:
例句
用作名词 (n.)
- 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。
词汇搭配
经典引文
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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