单词：gentries
n. 绅士们（gentry的复数形式）
gentry的用法和样例：
例句
用作名词(n.)
- The English gentry is next below the nobility.英国绅士的地位仅次于贵族。
- The peasants' revolt disturbed the gentry's sweet dreams.农民在乡里造反，搅动了绅士们的酣梦。
- In the Eighteenth Century, the clergy, like the nobility and gentry, often rode to hounds.在18世纪，神职人员跟贵族和上流社会人士一样，常常骑马打猎。
- In old society, the gentry lived in luxury.在旧社会，贵族们生活奢侈。
- She was an old woman who for twenty years had brought the neighbouring gentry into the world.她是个上了年纪的女人，二十年来，邻近的许许多多上层社会的绅士们都是由她接生的。
词汇搭配
- light-fingered gentry扒手们
- lightfingered gentry扒手先生
- the silkstocking gentry富豪
经典引文
We haue raised Seianus from obscure, and almost vnknowne Gentry.
出自：Jonson'Tis madness to presume too much upon our birth and Gentry.
出自：Alan Ross
【近义词】
- aristocracy贵族
- upper class上流社会
- nobility贵族
- elite精英
- ruling class统治阶级