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aristocrat

/uh-ris-tuh-krat, ar-uh-stuh-/US // əˈrɪs təˌkræt, ˈær ə stə- //UK // (ˈærɪstəˌkræt) //

贵族,贵族阶层,贵族们,贵族化

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a member of an aristocracy, especially a noble.
    • : a person who has the tastes, manners, etc., characteristic of members of an aristocracy.
    • : an advocate of an aristocratic form of government.
    • : anything regarded as the best, most elegant, or most stylish of its kind: the aristocrat of California wines.

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Examples

  • He was a genuine modernizer who built cities, factories and universities and took land away from aristocrats to give to peasants.

  • In 1948, Charles Aron, co-owner of Aristocrat, divorced his wife, Evelyn.

  • The French aristocrat Marquis de Sade once said that “It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

  • He was a lowly country lawyer and she a Kentucky aristocrat who had come to visit her older sister in Illinois.

  • Where Kate is mild-mannered and middle-class, Cressy, 24, is a wild, blue-blooded aristocrat with bohemian heritage.

  • Will she settle down to a life of quiet obscurity and shooting parties and marry an aristocrat like the establishment hopes?

  • Mistress of the Chevalier de Valois, and mother of a child that was attributed to the old aristocrat.

  • To-morrow he would be riding towards Paris, the cavalier of a beautiful aristocrat.

  • You will go most easily as a woman of the people, one who has some aristocrat enemy on whom she wishes to be avenged.

  • Over the wine the stranger had certainly expressed distrust of Lucien Bruslart, an aristocrat turned patriot.

  • Bruslart knew that to pity the aristocrat might be hardly more dangerous than to abuse the woman.