音标:['dʒentri] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
n. 贵族们
n. the most powerful members of a society

考试类型:[托福/GRE]
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gentry的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. The English gentry is next below the nobility.英国绅士的地位仅次于贵族。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. In old society, the gentry lived in luxury.在旧社会,贵族们生活奢侈。
  5. 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
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