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franklin

/frangk-lin/US // ˈfræŋk lɪn //UK // (ˈfræŋklɪn) //

法兰克林,法克林,法兰克福,法兰姆林

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    English History.

    • : a freeholder who was not of noble birth.

Examples

  • She worked as an English teacher at her old high school in Franklin.

  • On the field that day, Franklin told players he had tried to protect them.

  • Hall had 54 percent to Franklin’s 46 percent when the Associated Press called the race.

  • “It is critical that we implement equity and health in all policies in our county so that no community is left behind,” Franklin said.

  • With 70 percent of precincts reporting, Hall had 32 percent of the vote and Franklin 27 percent.

  • Thanks to that meddling Franklin and the other editors, Jefferson thought his Declaration had been “mangled.”

  • But I rest my case with this fact: James Madison, Ben Franklin, and George Washington said so.

  • Churchill said that meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening a bottle of Champagne—and so is reading The Churchill Factor.

  • Benjamin Franklin warned against making any hasty conclusions on such “a point of great importance.”

  • So said President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 23, 1933, just before he reached for a cold one.

  • He was the successor of Dr. Franklin as editor, and entered upon the business in 1763.

  • Franklin, at least, loved Old England, and it might well be maintained that these were the happiest years of his life.

  • It did not sail that day, or the next either; and as late as the 29th of April Franklin was still hanging about waiting to be off.

  • Franklin himself was a deliberate man, and at the last moment he decided, for some reason or other, not to take the first packet.

  • The only power which such men as Washington and Franklin denied to the Imperial legislature was the power of taxing.