英:[ˈdʒentri]
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英:[ˈdʒentri]
美:[ˈdʒentri]
gen·try
jen tri
复数:gentries
词根:gentry
n.gentlefolk 上流人士;名门世家
noun
upper or ruling class : aristocracy
a class whose members are entitled to bear a coat of arms though not of noble rankespecially: wealthy landowners having such status
people of a specified class or kind : folks
no real heroes or heroines among the academic gentry—R. G. Hanvey
the condition or rank of a gentleman
obsolete the qualities appropriate to a person of gentle (see gentle entry 1 sense 4a) birthespecially: courtesy
公元1300年左右,“贵族的地位或出身”; 14世纪中期,“贵族的时尚或习俗”; 14世纪晚期,“高贵的品格”,源自古法语 genterie, genterise,变体为 gentelise,“贵族出身,贵族阶层; 勇气,荣誉; 仁慈,温和”,源自 gentil,“出身高贵的,贵族的,家世良好的”(参见 gentle)。意思是“贵族人士,出身良好、教养良好的人阶层”在1520年代出现在英语中,后来在英格兰常指中上阶层,有财力和闲暇但低于贵族。在两个意义上,更早的词是 gentrice(公元1200年左右,“高贵的品格”,14世纪晚期,“贵族人士”),早期使用的 gentry 也可能被视为那个词的单数形式。在盎格鲁-爱尔兰语中, gentry 是“仙女”的名字(1880年), gentle 也可以意味着“被施了魔法的”(1823年)。
Middle English gentrie "high birth or rank, properties ideally characteristic of those of high birth, the wellborn collectively," borrowed from Anglo-French genterie "high birth," from gent "of aristocratic birth" + -erie -ery — more at gent >entry 1
The first known use of gentry was in the 14th century
genuflectverb
to kneel on one knee and then rise again as an act of deep respect
gentrynoun
people of high social status : aristocracy
1 The wilderness resorts of old, which tried to reproduce the lifestyle of the landed gentry, have been supplanted by a raft of quirky rentals.
2 Most of the gentry seemed to fold ineffectually after they were discovered.
3 The gentry were a flexible class and lived a life of struggle and competition.
乡绅阶层善于适应新的环境,他们的生活中无处不乏竞争和奋斗。
4 One August afternoon, my mother, ever the striving farmwife, had the wives of the local gentry, married to doctors, lawyers and auto execs, over for a luncheon.
5 The gentry on whose lands it stood – some of whom were important antiquaries, collecting and preserving the inscribed stones that were found along it – were beginning to make serious money from coal and steel.
6 They invited various relatives and friends, who took the train out from the city, and all the landed gentry from the neighborhood, without overlooking the town notables.
7 He was descended from Hudson Valley landed gentry and millionaire New York merchants, and went to Groton and Harvard.
作为哈德逊流域地产大亨和纽约百万商贾的后人,罗斯福曾就读于格罗顿公学,后赴哈佛大学深造。
8 Gentry told police Ball actually placed the tape on the child, according to the report.
士绅告诉警方,其实球放在磁带上的儿童, 据报告.
9 Tchaikovsky not only wrote the music, but adapted his own libretto from Pushkin’s 1833 novel, a lyrical examination of love’s cross-purposes among the Russian gentry.
10 Mr. Darcy-in-real-life’s slim, sloping shoulders were often found in the landed gentry at the time, with strong legs and “well modeled thighs a sign of virility, a good fencer and horseman.”
11 “Homomorphic encryption gives you a way out of the dilemma,” Gentry says.
“同态加密给你走出困境的方法,”Gentry说。
12 His family were “gentry” and rumored to be related to Robert E. Lee, naming one son of every generation after the beloved Civil War general.
13 St Louis’s gentry, rich suburbanites, move their problems to our backyard and then they want to destroy our yard because they don’t like the people living in it.
14 He wasn’t, like Yeats or Wilde, born to the Anglo-Irish gentry.
15 He argues with Mary over whether the gentry expect to be able to keep their power and land and money without working for it.
16 He was talented, cooking elaborate and refined meals for Virginia's gentry.
17 Unlike Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton was not born into the landed gentry.
18 Too many references to the Labour government "eating … alive" the old gentry clang from the pages, just in case we are in danger of missing Waters' thesis.
19 Waterways, forests and fertile soil enriched a gentry focused on raising tobacco, including William Churchill, a 1670s settler who prospered as planter, merchant and officeholder.
20 Her beat was the decayed gentry of Hove and Kensington, people who were struggling on fixed incomes pinched by the first world war.
1 绅士们
2 特定种类的人
3 有教养
Nice polished polite educated accomplished civilized cultured cultivated well-educated patrician genteel courtly gentlemanly instructed well-bred couth finish grace sophistication gentilesse gentle
4 上流阶层
5 家伙
boy-chik thing lot customer person card client article guy dog skin baby ball stick artist boy concern apple fish cat fruit egg bird soul fellow pot creature nut merchant companion basket scout duck buffer jack skate dude stiff proposition mug sponge lad cove lug dick cod bum bastard prune chap bloke crock gee beggar John gent bugger sod gunk cuckoo jasper goon joker mush rascal critter fucker bod wretch bleeder varmint Joe Carl jim Johnny knocker twat bozo kipper coot blighter ou prig boyo gink fulla birkie chappie beezer josser dero gazabo zazoo un cuss
7 社会地位高的人
8 贵族
silk-stocking prince peer noble nobility aristocracy aristocrat nobleman patrician noblesse lordling seignior Second Estate
9 家世
10 上流社会
quality social select county society exclusive fashionable classy tony genteel tush world class fashion salon gentility monde Belgravia swelldom of fashion
11 伙伴
coachfellow associator company number partner sport race associate crowd mate companion buddy pal cohort hearty consort bedfellow paisano helpmate coadjutor confrere pardner butty cully pard side-kick yokefellow consociate comate china plate circular companionate party match push bunch peer ally scream cousin bud lad comrade billy correlative compadre cobber fere haver companero palsy-walsy compeer coagent yokemate coach fellow
12 上层人士
13 上流人士