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earl

/url/US // ɜrl //UK // (ɜːl) //

伯爵,伯尔,伯伯

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess.
    • : a governor of one of the great divisions of England, including East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex.

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Examples

  • She got to know the other regulars — the guys who served hot meals at Earl’s First Amendment Grill, the girls who pulled up with coolers full of water and dry clothes when it rained.

  • Earl’s music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever.

  • According to the band, Earl set the tempo, starting the songs with a simple four count, but in Bad Brains nobody leads, nobody chases, nobody hurries ahead, nobody lags behind.

  • Earl also said Flavortown Kitchen would help his own restaurants, which have been suffering during the pandemic just like the mom-and-pops.

  • Planet Hollywood — which has survived two bankruptcies, high-profile lawsuits and chicken tenders coated in Cap’n Crunch — remains part of Earl Enterprises, the senior Earl’s company, which has gone on a buying spree of late.

  • Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”

  • This is admittedly a loaded question, but do you feel James Earl Ray really killed Martin Luther King Jr.?

  • The earl was killed in battle and Marshal captured, but he would later be ransomed by the queen herself.

  • William appears to have organized acquiescence by English lords for John, and was duly awarded when he was made Earl of Pembroke.

  • At no time during the shoot was Viscount Severn directly in front of the Earl of Wessex.

  • The old earl's property, the source of his wealth, as from his title the reader will have shrewdly guessed, was in collieries.

  • With the management of these, however, the Earl of Pit Town did not trouble himself.

  • He saw with evident pleasure the outward and visible signs of the old earl's immense wealth.

  • Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.

  • On joining the earl, father and son met as if they had parted only the previous day.