patrician

美 [pəˈtrɪʃn]英 [pəˈtrɪʃn]
  • adj.贵族的;上流社会的
  • n.贵族;有教养的人;中世纪意大利的显贵;罗马帝国的地方官

复数: patricians 派生词: patrician n.

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adj.

formal贵族的;上流社会的
connected with or typical of the highest social class

aristocratic

patrician

频次

  • 1
    N-COUNT 贵族;豪门子弟
    A patrician is a person who comes from a family of high social rank.

    ...the patrician banker Sir Charles Villiers.

    出身名门的银行家查尔斯·维利尔斯爵士

  • 2
    ADJ-GRADED 贵族的;有贵族气派的
    If you describe someone as patrician, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank.

    He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.

    他60岁出头,是位有着贵族气派的清瘦绅士。

noun

1
a member of the aristocracy
Synonym: aristocrat blue blood
2
a person of refined upbringing and manners

adj

1
belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
an aristocratic family
aristocratic Bostonians
aristocratic government
a blue family
blue blood
the blue-blooded aristocracy
of gentle blood
patrician landholders of the American South
aristocratic bearing
aristocratic features
patrician tastes
Synonym: aristocratic aristocratical blue blue-blooded gentle
2
befitting a person of noble origin
a patrician nose

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  1. The rank , position , or term of officeof a patrician .

    贵族的等级、地位或任期。

  2. Though he had patrician self-confidence , there was no snobbery in Roosevelt .

    罗斯福有着出身贵族的自信满满,但却毫无趋炎附势的丑恶嘴脸。

  3. He was a lean , patrician gent in his early sixties .

    他60岁出头,是位有着贵族气派的清瘦绅士。

  4. The old patrician was buried in the family vault .

    这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。

  5. There was a conflict between plebs and patricians in ancient Rome in 494BC .

    在公元前494年,罗马发生了一次平民反对贵族的斗争

  6. They were often defined as members of a low-born , despised social class and a commoner , while many people who consider themselves modern-day patricians often look down and mock them .

    他们多被归类为出生低下、平凡无奇,且被轻视的社会阶层。而那些自认为是现代社会贵族的人经常会鄙视或嘲笑他们。

  7. He was born into a patrician New England family and privately educated .

    他出生于一个新英格兰贵族家庭,接受了私人教育。

  8. He speaks English with a marked patrician accent .

    他说英语带有一种明显的贵族口音。

  9. Caesar has put an end to patrician tyranny .

    恺撒已经结束了贵族们的统治。

  10. Mr Chandler 's patrician friends in Delaware included the mighty du Pont family .

    他在特拉华的贵族朋友包括强大的杜邦家族。

  11. You 're right , I 'm a spoiled patrician .

    你说得对,我是个被宠坏的贵族。

  12. In the16th century , Ben Johnson wrote ," Blueness doth express trueness ," because blue also means patrician .

    十六世纪时,本·琼生写道:“蓝色确实表示真实”,因为蓝色还意味着高贵的。

  13. Its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham .

    它的贵族的尊严只是一套华丽的伪装。

  14. China , a country once renowned for its proletarian pride , is experiencing a surge in that most patrician of sports : golf .

    中国一度以其无产阶级自豪感而闻名,而现在一项非常贵族化的运动却在这个国度异军突起,这就是高尔夫。

  15. There was a conflict between plebs and patricians in ancient Rome in494BC .

    在公元前494年,罗马发生了一次平民反对贵族的斗争。

  16. The Roman patricians were clever enough to beat every such potential tyrant by giving in to a certain extent to the plebeians .

    罗马贵族非常狡猾,他们对平民作出一定程度的让步以打击每一个这样的潜在的霸主。

  17. lucky that she was a tough woman in a system dominated by patrician men ( the wets never knew how to cope with her ) ;

    她的幸运在于,在这个由贵族做派的男人(温和派从未懂得如何与她打交道)所主导的体系中,她是一个强硬的一个女人;

  18. He makes no apology for it . Furthermore , he argues , his Givenchy reflects the same sensibility of its patrician founder .

    他没有对此表示出一丝“悔改”,更有甚者,他坚称自己设计的纪梵希与贵族家庭出生的创始人于贝尔在情感上是一脉相承的。

  19. After middle period of Qing Dynasty , the proprietorship of soil was changed from patrician to fresh landholder , and management method was changed from slavery to tenancy .

    清朝中叶以后出现旗地向民地转化的趋势,经营方式则由传统的农奴制向租佃制转变。

  20. With her grand education and patrician looks , Ms. MacGraw was more than believable in " Love Story " ; she was nominated for an Academy Award .

    因为不俗的教育背景与高贵的相貌,麦古奥在《爱情故事》中的表演颇具说服力,并获得一项奥斯卡奖提名。

  21. As if to give its own patrician signal of approval , the National Gallery is now holding its first major exhibition of photography , Seduced by Art : Photography Past and Present .

    好像是为了给自己的贵族标志一个批准,国家美术馆举办了第一次大型摄影展,被艺术所牵引:摄影的过去与现在。

  22. His long patrician face , which might have been handsome at one point , was unfortunately barred from a scar , which lifted slightly the left corner of his upper lip .

    那张高贵的长脸,本来应该很英俊的,很不幸被左上唇角向上挑起的一块疤痕破坏了。

  23. He was reticent , patrician , bookish , urbane .

    他沉默含蓄,雍容华贵,书生气十足,而又温文有礼。

  24. With the struggle of plebs for the equal political rights with the patricians in the early Republic , the institutions gradually developed and the official position was gradually open to the plebs .

    伴随着共和早期平民争取与贵族平等的政治权利的斗争,其形制逐步完善,官职人选也逐步向平民开放。

  25. From Fronto I learned to observe what envy , and duplicity , and hypocrisy are in a tyrant , and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection .

    从弗朗特,我学会了观察仅仅在一个暴君那里存在的嫉妒、伪善和口是心蜚非,知道我们中间那些被称为上流人的一般是相当缺乏仁慈之情的。

  26. People thronged to Lexington from professorial Cambridge ; from patrician Back Bay ; from sylvan Lincoln and Wellesley , and from the gritty , " triple-decker " apartment blocks of Everett and Medford .

    云集在列克星敦的人们来自四面八方,比如学术气息浓厚的剑桥、富人区后湾(BackBay)、林中小镇林肯(Lincoln)和韦尔斯利(Wellesley)、以及埃弗雷特(Everett)和梅德福(Medford)粗犷的“三层楼”(triple-decker)公寓街区。