gentry
英 ['dʒentrɪ]
美 ['dʒɛntri]
- n. 人們（多用貶義）；貴族們；（英）上流社會人士
- n. (Gentry)人名；(英)金特裏
英文詞源
- gentry (n.)
- c. 1300, "nobility of rank or birth;" mid-14c., "a fashion or custom of the nobility;" late 14c., "nobility of character," from Old French genterie, genterise, variant of gentelise "noble birth, aristocracy; courage, honor; kindness, gentleness," from gentil "high-born, noble, of good family" (see gentle). Meaning "noble persons, the class of well-born and well-bred people" is from 1520s in English, later often in England referring to the upper middle class, persons of means and leisure but below the nobility. Earlier in both senses was gentrice (c. 1200 as "nobility of character," late 14c. as "noble persons"), and gentry in early use also might have been regarded as a singular of that. In Anglo-Irish, gentry was a name for "the fairies" (1880), and gentle could mean "enchanted" (1823).
雙語例句
- 1. Most of them were the nobility and the landed gentry.
- 他們大多是貴族和地主鄉紳。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.--David Tyson Gentry
- 真正的友情是，即使兩人不說話，也覺得很舒服。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
- 3. The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour.
- 他們采用的方法嚴重偏袒中上階級.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The so - called golden - collar gentry are essentially nothing but brain - workers with high income.
- 所謂的“金領貴族”實質上不過是高收入的腦力勞動者而已.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.
- 來自土地的收入是衡量是否士紳階層的真正標準.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》