courtier

1 The courtiers cringed before the Queen.

朝臣们在女王面前卑躬屈膝。

2 The prince nodded to another flock of cooing courtiers, and didn’t look at either the assassin or the Captain of the Guard as he spoke again.

3 The Times of London quoted courtiers who also said that the king was tired from his previous day’s hospital procedure.

4 A fair number of courtiers, slaves and others were still moving about here but this only made the two girls less conspicuous.

5 He ate some bread, and said, “My girls, they do like to dance. Little one, Shirley, she going to dance like a courtier when she’s grown. The big one, she wants the graces.”

6 She leads Astrid, her ladies-of-honor, and a train of eager courtiers out of the room and into the Grand Entry Hall.

7 The poet, a courtier named Yukihira, was a provincial governor who, by some accounts, was exiled to Suma Bay, a famous stretch of coastline in western Japan.

8 For example, a photograph by artist Peter Brathwaite brings to life a Black trumpeter and courtier depicted in a painting in Kensington’s King’s Staircase.

9 It has a distinguished and reserved character. The courtier Abraham Lawton noted as early as 1815 that "it has firm taste, a fine colour, and a pronounced SAP".

著名葡萄酒经纪人亚伯拉罕劳顿在1815年对杜哈米雍古堡酒的评价口感紧密扎实，美丽的颜色，有着突出的酒香至今仍可被视作经典表述。

10 Don't believe what a courtier tells you.

不要相信谄媚者对你说的话。

11 Estraven was a courtier, a politician, and l a fool to have trusted him.

12 Because the man was an important courtier, he may be buried in the highly prestigious Valley of the Kings.

这个人是个重要的朝臣，他也许会被葬在享有盛誉的国王谷。

13 Argaven was less kingly, less manly, than he looked at a distance among his courtiers.

14 He remained, at heart, a courtier and a cynic.

在心底里，他其实仍然是一名侍臣，同时也玩世不恭。

15 The Queen had no intention of keeping him for long, but he was so different from her many courtiers, with their elegant clothes and cool, appraising blue eyes.

16 A young courtier, an old beggar.

年轻当朝臣，年老当乞丐。

17 “We expect too much of him, ” sighs a senior courtier.

一位高级廷臣叹称，“我们对他寄望过多。”

18 She smells like a mishmash of courtier perfume.

19 "I heard the queen wants to extend royal beauty restrictions to high-house courtiers. All of us might have to settle for a single definitive look," one woman says.

20 The Duke of Edinburgh died one month before his 100th birthday, and COVID restrictions even changed how courtiers communicated the news.

1 廷臣

court

2 奉承者

lackey toady flatterer lickspittle apple polisher

3 谄媚者

sycophant toady flunkey flunky toadeater stroke parasite claqueur kiss-ass bum-sucker satellite lackey flatterer lickspittle adulator legacy hunter

4 侍从

attendant acolyte

5 朝臣

court courtling

6 侍臣

court attendant

7 求婚者

suitor wooer