peerage

1 When she announced her departure from the Mid Bedfordshire seat, she said she wanted answers first as to why she had not been given a peerage in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.

2 Most hereditary peerages are bestowed by royalty and can only be passed to sons not daughters - based on the rule of "male primogeniture" - a principle as old as the peerage system itself.

3 Departing prime ministers have the right to propose candidates for a place in the Lords, known as a peerage, but candidates must resign their seats in the House of Commons if they hold them.

4 A mayor has defended his peerage given by Boris Johnson and said his preferred title was not allowed.

5 The Queen conferred the dignity of a peerage on him.

女王封他为贵族。

6 The king conferred the dignity of a peerage on the general.

国王颁赐爵位这要职给将军。

7 “I forgive you, child. We in the peerage are forgiving. Your poor mother used to be known for her ill breeding too.”

8 Last month, the former Tory minister said she had "never officially been told" she was in line for a peerage in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.

9 The king raised his general to the peerage for winning the war.

由于赢得了这场战争，国王封他的将军为贵族。

10 However, like the A-list authors in Harold Bloom’s “The Western Canon,” Burke’s intellectual peerage will probably provoke arguments over who’s in and who isn’t.

11 She never visited them and when Burke's Peerage falsely reported them dead, she didn't correct the error.

她从未去探访她们，而当伯克的贵族谎报两人已经死亡，她也不予纠正。

12 a member of the peerage

一位贵族成员

13 The former culture secretary said she had been vetted for the peerage, but because six months had passed, her checks had expired.

14 The MP said she had not been offered a peerage to defect but had been asked to contribute in the area of housing.

15 Charlotte Owen was among several allies of the ex-prime minister who were given life peerages in his resignation honours list.

16 He was granted a peerage.

他被授予贵族爵位.

17 He was elevated to the peerage.

他被升为贵族。

18 The government has announced 13 new peerages, including several donors to the Tory party, and the youngest ever member of the House of Lords.

19 Ms Dorries said she would stand down "with immediate effect" in June in protest at not receiving a peerage.

20 "The convention is the incumbent prime minister does not block the political peerage proposals of others," which the source said included "dubious" past selections by Labour.

1 贵族头衔

title

2 爵位

title

3 贵族阶级

upper crust patriciate aristocracy uppertendom

4 贵族

FFV silk-stocking quality noble aristocratic patrician lord peer nobility aristocracy aristocrat nobleman thane signor baronage atheling blue blood prince baron gentle nobiliary grandee gentility sirdar great coronet lordly nobby top purple mogul nob noblesse seigneur signore jarl ameer belgravia seignior classy cavalier coroneted sir magnate magnifico aristo seignory dicty

5 贵族的地位

lordship